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Lapid vows to amend Nation-State law if he remains premier after November

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Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Tuesday that if he is able to form a government following the Nov. 1 election, he would modify Israel’s Nation-State law, and ensure Jews cannot pray on...

Party registration kicks off for Nov. 1 Israeli election

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Registration for Israel’s national election opened on Wednesday, with the deadline to submit candidate lists to the Central Elections Committee set at 10 p.m. on Thursday. Fifty-five parties have requested registration forms ahead of the...

Netanyahu builds momentum with key victories in Likud primary and Supreme Court challenge

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After two Israeli elections passed without the formation of a coalition government, and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit released his long-awaited announcement that he would formally indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, opponents of the embattled...
Blue and White Party chairman Benny Gantz attends a faction meeting in Tel Aviv on Dec. 12, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Gantz will ‘consider’ pardoning Netanyahu if he quits politics

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Blue and White leader Benny Gantz said on Thursday that he would consider pardoning indicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “in accordance with the recommendations of the justice system” if Netanyahu were to retire...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting of the Right-wing parties bloc at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on November 20, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90

Facing legal uncertainty, can Netanyahu run for prime minister?

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With little political movement and less than two weeks remaining for the Knesset to decide on a prime minister, Israel appears poised to head for an unprecedented third election within one year. The biggest question...
Election campaign posters in Tel Aviv depict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud Party, as well as the leaders of the Blue and White Party, including Benny Gantz, second from left, Sept. 2019. Photo by Adam Shuldman/Flash90.

Gantz’s ‘internal war’ rhetoric is insulting and dangerous

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Blue and White Party chairman and former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz has insulted the decency and morality of Israel’s public, drawing false and dangerous comparisons between Israel’s current political dysfunction...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly Sunday cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Dec. 9, 2018. Credit: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Running the Jewish nation with a razor-thin majority

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Since Avigdor Lieberman’s resignation as Defense Minister and Yisrael Beytenu’s departure from the government in mid-November, the ruling coalition led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now has just 61 Knesset members out of...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Education Minister Naftali Bennett during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament on Nov. 13, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Bennett walks back ultimatum, coalition remains intact ‎

Habayit Hayehudi leader Naftali Bennett and fellow party member ‎Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked announced on Monday that they were ‎standing by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his effort to ‎stabilize the coalition and avert...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a plenum session in the Israeli parliament on March 13, 2018. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Netanyahu engaged in last-ditch effort to save coalition, as early Israeli elections loom

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party are meeting with coalition partners in a last-ditch attempt to stabilize the government and avoid early elections. The coalition government currently contains a razor-thin majority...

Mixed results characterize U.S., Israel elections

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October 30 was Israel’s local election day. More than six million people were eligible to vote, and the government provided a free day, with public services closed down. That meant that a large percentage...