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Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett attends the launch of the Yamina Party campaign, on Feb. 12, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

‘If Yamina wants to join the government, it has to be flexible’

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Likud Party officials said over the weekend that while they’d like to see the Yamina in the government, the right-wing party would have to be flexible. A senior Likud official told Israel Hayom that the “portfolio...
Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid speaks during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on April 19, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Lapid: Blue and White perpetrated ‘greatest deception in Israeli history’

Yesh Atid Party head Yair Lapid on Tuesday blasted his former political partner Blue and White leader Benny Gantz for agreeing to a power-sharing agreement with incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing Gantz...
Speaker of the Israeli parliament Yuli Edelstein gives a press statement in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem on January 12, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

‘Israel’s High Court has long ago taken over the discretion of the executive power’

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Last Wednesday morning, then-Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein knew he was about to do something unprecedented. Not only in Israeli terms but also internationally, there aren’t many instances of the head of a country’s legislature resigning in...
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein seen during a vote on a bill to dissolve the parliament, on Dec. 11, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Right fumes as High Court orders Knesset to name new speaker

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Right-wing politicians were outraged with Israel’s High Court of Justice on Thursday after it ordered the Knesset to go ahead with the necessary vote to replace Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, who dropped a political...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in Jerusalem on the coronavirus (COVID-19), March 11, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Netanyahu invites Gantz to form ‘emergency’ unity government

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invited Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz to talks about forming an emergency unity government amid the coronavirus pandemic. The invitation comes as Israel has begun the process...
Itamar Ben-Gvir of Otzma Yehudit Party attends the Srugim conference in Jerusalem on Sept. 2, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Report: Netanyahu seeks to push Otzma Yehudit over electoral threshold

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s advisers are holding talks with the head of the far-right Otzma Yehudit Party to try to find a way for Otzma to pass the electoral threshold in Israel’s March...

Report: Netanyahu puts Jordan Valley annexation on hold

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a meeting of an interministerial team that was deliberating the annexation of the Jordan Valley following the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to launch a probe into alleged...
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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and coalition head David Amsalem during a faction meeting in the Knesset on Nov. 19, 2018. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Netanyahu names Knesset member David Amsalem as communications minister

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday that he was appointing Likud Knesset member David Amsalem as communications minister. Amsalem, who serves as the coalition chairman, will replace Ayoub Kara, who resigned his post...
David Ben-Gurion, center, sits with other members of his Mapai-led government in 1961. Mapai was the forerunner of the Labor Party. (Fritz Cohen)

How the party that founded the state wound up on life support

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On Nov. 22, 1965, members of the sixth Kness—et met for the first, historic meeting in the new Knesset building, which was nearly complete. One hundred and twenty members of the newly elected Knesset...