Tag: Israeli Politics
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...
Coalition defector Orbach will only rejoin government if it regains majority
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...
How to kill a democracy
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...
Israel’s coalition faces uncertain prospects after key legislation fails vote
Israel’s government suffered a double blow on Monday that could impact its future and potentially lead to early elections.
The first setback came when the coalition failed to pass a bill Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar...
Last-minute compromise enables Israeli government to pass soldiers’ tuition bill
Israel’s government on Monday passed a law subsidizing academic tuition fees for discharged soldiers, following a last-minute compromise.
The government had originally proposed that the state fund 60% of the soldiers’ tuition fees, but the...
What is the Shura Council?
When Israel’s Ra’am Party froze its membership in the government coalition last month over the Temple Mount riots, the decision came not from the party’s leadership but from a body called the Shura Council....
In shock move, Knesset member Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi quits coalition
Knesset Member Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi of the Meretz Party resigned from the government coalition on Thursday, sending shockwaves through the Israeli political system.
Following Zoabi’s departure, the coalition has just 59 seats to the opposition’s...
The Muslim Brotherhood’s foreign minister
The responses elicited by the death of Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh were written hundreds of years ago. Blood libels—the practice of using the death of non-Jews as a means to set up the Jewish collective...
Israeli interior minister says she will veto any attempt to amend the Nation-State Law
Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked said on Monday that she would veto any attempt by other parties in the coalition to amend the Nation-State Law.
“I recommend that my friends in the coalition stop amusing...
Ex-Yamina MK Chikli vows to remain in Knesset after being declared defector
Former Yamina Party Knesset member Amichai Chikli said on Wednesday that he intended to remain in parliament despite being declared a party defector by the Knesset House Committee on Monday, at Yamina’s request.
Speaking to 103...