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The Knesset in Jerusalem, Feb. 22, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Three more judicial reform bills pass first reading in Knesset

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Three draft laws related to the government’s judicial reform program passed their first reading in the Knesset plenum on Wednesday. The first, coined “Deri Law 2.0,” passed by a vote of 62-53. It would prevent...
Hadash-Ta'al party leaders: Aymen Odeh (center) and Ahmad Tibi (right). (Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ayman Odeh and coalitions of hate

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On Dec. 9, MK Ayman Odeh met in New York with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The meeting was arranged by the PLO’s mission to the U.N. Odeh heads the Hadash Party and is...
Israeli Prime Minister and Yesh Atid party head Yair Lapid. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Lapid calls for protests against prospective Netanyahu government

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Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid Party on Tuesday called on supporters to attend protests planned for this weekend against the emerging government of Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu. “We’re done being upset by...
Noam Party head Avi Maoz arrives for a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Nov. 10, 2022. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu’s Likud reaches coalition deal with Noam Party

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Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu struck a coalition deal with Noam Party head Avi Maoz on Sunday night that will make the latter a deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, according to media...
Rabbi Haim Drukman during a press conference in Jerusalem, March 22, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

‘There is no problem with having a halachic state’

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The return of the right to power in the recent Israeli elections is “a badge of honor for the sector and proves that this is what the public wants,” according to Rabbi Haim...
Religious Zionist Party chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich speaks at the Knesset ceremony marking the 27th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Nov. 6, 2022. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

‘Respect our democracy’: Smotrich slams US over implied warning on defense portfolio

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The Religious Zionist Party criticized the Biden administration on Wednesday after U.S. ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides implicitly warned Israeli Prime Minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu against appointing party head Bezalel Smotrich as the next defense...
Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar and Minister of Defense Benny Gantz hold a press conference announcing they merging their parties ahead of the upcoming election, in Ramat Gan, July 10, 2022. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Gantz, Sa’ar announce merger of Blue and White and New Hope parties

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz (Blue and White) and Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar (New Hope) announced on Sunday the formation of a new joint political list. Sa’ar’s party will receive three out of the first...
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked attends a press conference Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, June 12, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Yamina faces uncertain future following Bennett’s exit

Coalition lawmakers bid farewell to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday, shortly after he announced that not only was he not running in the next elections, but was taking a break from politics...
Yamina MK Nir Orbach leaves the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, following a meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, June 12, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Coalition defector Orbach will only rejoin government if it regains majority

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Knesset Member Nir Orbach (Yamina), who announced on June 13  that he will no longer vote with the government, has conditioned his return on the coalition regaining its majority, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. In talks with...
Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on May 11, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

How to kill a democracy

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Israeli democracy is hanging by a thread. That is the lesson of last Monday’s testimony by prosecution witness and former Communications Ministry director-general Shlomo Filber in former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial. Filber...