Tag: Coalition
With no good options for ‘day after’ in Gaza Strip, Netanyahu playing for time
Despite mounting pressure from coalition members, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced no plan for what comes next in the Gaza Strip once Hamas is defeated—and seemingly feels no need to do so,...
Knesset passes first judicial reform bill into law
The Knesset passed a key piece of the coalition's judicial reform legislation into law on Monday.
All 64 members of the coalition, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was released from hospital on Monday morning following a procedure to...
Israel’s president expresses optimism on judicial reform compromise
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog in an interview published on Wednesday expressed optimism that a compromise on judicial reform was possible.
Since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 27 announced a pause in the legislative process until...
No, the ‘override clause’ won’t ‘crush’ Israeli democracy
Israel’s outgoing interim prime minister, Yair Lapid, opened his Yesh Atid Party meeting on Monday by addressing the infamous “override clause.”
“It will crush the court; it will crush Israeli democracy,” he said, referring to...
Rescuing the coalition at Israel’s literal and figurative expense
When Israeli lawmaker Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi reversed her decision to quit the government, a sigh of relief was heard in the halls of half of the 120-seat Knesset. Had the Knesset member from the left-wing Meretz Party upheld...
Israeli interior minister says she will veto any attempt to amend the Nation-State Law
Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked said on Monday that she would veto any attempt by other parties in the coalition to amend the Nation-State Law.
“I recommend that my friends in the coalition stop amusing...
Thousands attend right-wing rally in Jerusalem to protest current government
Right-wing politicians and organizations held a rally in Jerusalem on Wednesday night to protest the current government and its perceived left-wing policies.
The rally, which took place near the government compound at Cinema City, was...
Labor’s Meirav Michaeli ‘will break up the coalition,’ Gantz’s inner circle warns
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s threat to topple the coalition unless his bill to raise salaries for career soldiers is approved by the Knesset has put the government in crisis mode. Transportation Minister Merav...
Eating Knesset candy and drinking the Kool-Aid
Photos that emerged last week of Israeli lawmakers munching on candy for two white nights in a row served as a perfect metaphor for the kindergarten-like atmosphere of the Knesset as a whole and...
Hamas widows, orphans and ties to the Israeli coalition
Given the fact that the Arab-Israeli Ra’am Party is openly Islamist and associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the revelation on Friday evening by Channel 13’s Ayala Hasson that it’s been funneling money into Gaza to finance Hamas...