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Blue and White Party lawmakers leave the Knesset plenum hall, Feb. 10, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Elections loom as Likud, Blue and White talks collapse, bill to delay budget vote...

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Israel’s government on Monday night failed to pass a bill allowing it to postpone a vote on the state budget, effectively signaling the demise of the 23rd Knesset. The coalition had to push the state...
Blue and White Party leaders Benny Gantz and Gabi Ashkenazi celebrate as the results in the Israeli general elections are announced, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 9, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Report: Gantz’s call for polygraphs sparks outrage after closed-door talk leaked

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Monday demanded that lawmakers from his Blue and White faction undergo polygraph testing following a leak from a meeting during which he admitted he does not expect Israeli...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz (right) visits Bnei Brak, Sept. 06, 2020. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Gantz’s ultimatum: ‘Pass a 2021 budget by November or we’ll go to elections’

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Monday vowed to dissolve the government if a state budget for 2021 isn’t passed by the end of October. “If there is no budget, we’ll go to elections,” Gantz...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz vote for the budget deadline extension bill on Aug. 24, 2020. Credit: Knesset Spokesperson/Yehonatan Samiyeh.

Israel delays budget deadline, preventing election (for now)

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Israel’s Knesset on Monday passed a final version of a bill to extend the deadline for parliament to pass a state budget. The new date is Dec. 23, said the Knesset in a statement. If a budget...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly Cabinet meeting, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Knesset to approve budget deadline extension, averting government collapse

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Israel’s Knesset Finance Committee on Monday morning approved a final version of a bill to extend the deadline for parliament to pass a state budget. The new date is Dec. 23, the Knesset said in a...
Tehila Friedman-Nachalon in 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Can calls for unity and moderation unite divided societies?

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It says something about the state of Israeli society that a speech containing many platitudes and little in the way of practical suggestions not only went viral, but is also being lauded as a model for...
Former Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett attends the launch of the Yamina Party campaign, on Feb. 12, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Media polls show Yamina to grow, Likud and Blue and White to slip

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Media polls released on Thursday show that if Israeli elections were held today, Yamina would grow, while the Likud and the Blue and White parties would slip. Channel 13 News projected that Likud would win 30...
Cyber and National Digital Matters Minister David Amsalem arrives at the District Court in Jerusalem, ahead of the start of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial on criminal allegations of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. May 24, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Likud minister threatens to block all non-coronavirus-related legislation

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Israeli Cyber and National Digital Matters Minister David Amsalem of the  Likud Party said on Friday that no laws would be passed in the Knesset this week other than those urgently needed to help...
Illustrative image of a person smoking marijuana. Feb. 11, 2020. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

Likud, Blue and White to work towards decriminalizing cannabis

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and Vice Premier Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party issued a joint statement on Tuesday saying they would work to “resolve the issue of decriminalization and legalization”...
Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut arrives at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 3, 2020, for a hearing on the legality of the coalition agreement between Likud and Blue and White parties. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.

As Israel’s Supreme Court weighs in on unity government, how much power should it...

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In a landmark ruling, Israel’s Supreme Court rejected all petitions against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forming a new government while under indictment, and against the emergency unity government deal signed by Netanyahu and...