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Chief Sephardi rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks in the city of Tiberias, northern Israel, May 24, 2018. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90

Israelis should emulate American Jewish attempts at unity

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The great divide between the ultra-Orthodox minority and the non-Orthodox majority in the American Jewish community was hard to miss lately. The march against anti-Semitism from Lower Manhattan over the Brooklyn Bridge was almost...
Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef at a conference in Rosh Pina, Northern Israel. Aug. 22, 2018. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Netanyahu lauds Soviet immigrants, criticizes harsh remarks by chief rabbi

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized as “outrageous and inappropriate” recent comments by Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi about immigrants from the former Soviet Union. According to Ynet, at a rabbinical gathering in Jerusalem last week, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman at a graduation ceremony of the National Security College on July 13, 2016. Photo by Flash90.

Stubborness of Lieberman, Netanyahu mires Israel

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Avigdor Lieberman has been in politics for several decades. Earlier, he was close to Bibi, but later protested his less aggressive postures toward Palestinians. He came from a Zionist background in Kishinev, and in...
Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman speaks with the media during a faction meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem on Dec. 2, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Lieberman says Israel headed back to elections in 2020

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Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that Israel is headed to its third round of elections with the course of a year. “Elections are coming,” Lieberman told the Yediot Achronot daily in an interview....
The heads of the Arab-Israeli parties Hadash, Ta’al and UAL seek a joint list, July 27, 2019. Credit: Hadash.

Who are the real anti-Zionists in Israel?

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In a speech that sparked condemnations from the left, right and center, Avigdor Lieberman, the head of Israel’s Yisrael Beiteinu Party, ended speculation as to whether he would support a minority government that would...
Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Tel Aviv shortly before his mandate to form a government expires, on Nov. 20, 2019. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

With Gantz having failed to secure a coalition, what’s next for Israel?

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Just hours before Wednesday’s midnight deadline, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz returned the mandate to form a government to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. Like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before him, Gantz was...
Israel's President Reuven Rivlin (center) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Sept. 23, 2019. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Netanyahu, Gantz to meet in final effort to negotiate a unity government deal

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Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are set to meet at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, just 26 hours before Gantz’s mandate to form a government will expire. Netanyahu...
Blue and White Party chairman Benny Gantz and Israel Beitenu Party chairman Avigdor Lieberman give a joint statement to the media after a meeting for negotiations towards building a new government, at the Kfar Maccabia Hotel in Ramat Gan, on Nov. 14, 2019. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Israeli party leaders lament stalling of movement towards government coalition

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With a tenuous ceasefire taking hold across southern Israel, politics has again returned to center stage. With Israel and its legislators analyzing the fallout from two days of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, and...
Religious Israeli soldiers pray near the city of Beit Shemesh, Sept. 27, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The Israel Defense Forces is becoming ‘God’s army,’ warns Lieberman

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The Israel Defense Forces is becoming an organ of the country’s Chief Rabbinate, Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday. His comments, which he posted on Facebook, came in reaction to a booklet authored...
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announces his resignation following the ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza during a press conference in the Knesset, Nov. 14, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Lieberman plan calls for Netanyahu to be first premier, but without right-wing bloc

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Yisrael Beiteinu Party head Avigdor Lieberman presented his plan on Wednesday evening for a government consisting of his own party added to the Blue and White Party, and the Likud Party. According to his proposal, ...