Tag: Israel Politics
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...
‘Israel’s High Court has long ago taken over the discretion of the executive power’
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...
Right fumes as High Court orders Knesset to name new speaker
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...
Netanyahu invites Gantz to form ‘emergency’ unity government
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...
Report: Netanyahu seeks to push Otzma Yehudit over electoral threshold
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
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...
With Gantz having failed to secure a coalition, what’s next for Israel?
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...
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...
How the party that founded the state wound up on life support
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...