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Meretz head calls on leftist Labor Knesset members to unite around party

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Meretz Party chairwoman Tamar Zandberg has called on Labor lawmakers from the Labor Party and others on the left to join forces with Meretz to ensure their focus is on left-wing ideology. “Meretz is the...
Likud Party supporters outside the Jerusalem Likud casting poll on Feb. 5, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Likud Party members vote for Knesset candidate list ahead of April 9 elections

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Likud Party members took to the polls on Monday to set the party’s Knesset list ahead of general elections on April 9. The party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu puts 142 candidates in front of...
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Gantz’s first speech gives him huge boost in election polls

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The first campaign speech by former Israel Defense Forces’ chief and Israel Resilience party leader Benny Gantz has given Gantz an enormous boost, polls published on Wednesday show. According to a polls by Hadashot 12 News, Israel...
Israeli Yesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid speaks in Netanya n March 19, 2017. Credit: Flash90.

Lapid denies leaked Yesh Atid threat of political ‘hit’ on Gantz

Yesh Atid, which dropped in election polls this week following former Israel Defense Forces’ chief Benny Gantz’s debut campaign speech on Tuesday, is under pressure and trying to let Gantz know that Yesh Atid leader Yair...
The Israel Defense Forces salutes Yom Kippur War heroes at an official annual memorial service for fallen soldiers on Oct. 9, 2011. Pictured is IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz. Credit: Sgt. Ori Shifrin, IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

Right doubles down on verbal attacks on Gantz following debut speech

Politicians from the right lambasted former IDF chief and Israel Resilience Party founder Benny Gantz on Wednesday following Gantz’s debut political speech on Tuesday evening. Education Minister Naftali Bennett said in an interview on Army...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo via video conference the 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2019. Credit: Screenshot.

Pompeo: Peace plan to be released after Israeli elections

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Tuesday that the highly anticipated Trump administration’s peace plan for the Israelis and Palestinians—commonly referred to as the “deal of the century”—is expected to be released...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 8th Annual International Cybersecurity Conference at Tel Aviv University on June 20, 2018. Credit: GPO/Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom.

With elections approaching, is Israel prepared for foreign cyber threat?

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As Israeli elections approach, the country’s cyber-security watchdogs are warning about attempts by foreign actors to disrupt and manipulate this essential democratic process. The issue came to the fore earlier in January, when the head...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly government conference at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on Jan 13, 2019. Credit: Amit Shabi/YEDIOT ACHRANOT/POOL.

Netanuyahu’s lawyers meet with attorney general on indictment

Isreli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal team—attorneys Navot Tel-Zur, Amit Hadad, Tal Shapira, and Judge (ret.) Oded Mudrik—met on Monday with Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit in an attempt to dissuade him from announcing his...
Shaykh Muwaffak Tarif (center), spiritual leader of the Israeli Druze community, attends a conference of the Zionist Druze Movement in Herzliya on July 16, 2018. Photo by Flash90.

‘We will not change nation-state law,’ Israel’s justice minister tells Druze

Days after former IDF chief of staff and head of the Israel Resilience Party Benny Gantz told Druze leaders that he would “change” the controversial nation-state law, which the Druze argue makes them second-class citizens,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Dec. 4, 2018. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Polls show Likud in lead, Gantz and Yesh Atid far behind

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party continues to lead in political polls ahead of the general Knesset election on April 9. A Channel 12 News poll projected 32 sets for the Likud, compared to 14...