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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...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid Defense Minister Benny Gantz attend a vote on the "settler law" bill at the Knesset, June 6, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

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...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz attend a plenum session in the Knesset on May 23, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Last-minute compromise enables Israeli government to pass soldiers’ tuition bill

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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...
Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra'am party, leads a faction meeting in the Knesset on Oct. 4, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

What is the Shura Council?

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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....
Israeli lawmaker Ghaida Rinawie-Zoabi at the Knesset, ahead of the opening parliament session of the new government, on April 5, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitousi/Flash90.

In shock move, Knesset member Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi quits coalition

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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...
Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas attends the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on Feb. 22, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s foreign minister

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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 Ayelet Shaked holds a press conference at Ben Gurion Airport, on March 13, 2022. Photo by Roy Alima/Flash90.

Israeli interior minister says she will veto any attempt to amend the Nation-State Law

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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...
Yamina Knesset member Amichai Chikli attends a Knesset House Committee discussion following a request by from the party for his ouster, April 25, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Ex-Yamina MK Chikli vows to remain in Knesset after being declared defector

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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...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at the Judea and Samaria Division military base, near Beit El, April 5, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Bennett vows he will not ask Joint Arab List to join coalition

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday denied rumors that he intends to ask the Joint Arab List to shore up his shaky coalition following the resignation last week of Yamina Knesset member Idit...
Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Knesset member Idit Silman attend a Knesset press conference, on Oct. 6, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Meretz leader trying to ‘smooth over differences’ with ex-coalition chairwoman–report

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Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) has in recent days attempted to “smooth over differences” with Yamina Knesset member Idit Silman, who resigned her position as coalition chairwoman on April 6, Maariv reported on Sunday. Silman’s resignation,...