Tag: Israeli Politics
Likud loses key Knesset vote, as opponents seek to replace Netanyahu
Israel’s ruling Likud Party lost a key Knesset vote on Monday, giving opponents of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a narrow majority in a newly formed Arrangements Committee. The committee sets the parliamentary agenda...
Lapid steps up coalition-building efforts as Smotrich digs in heels
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid and Blue and White chief Benny Gantz met on Saturday evening for talks on forming a potential coalition in the event that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unable...
Israeli president tasks Netanyahu with forming next government
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the mandate on Tuesday to form the country’s next government.
In his address, broadcast from the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, Rivlin noted that in the seven...
Shas leader confident Yamina, New Hope will ‘return to the fold’
Heading into Israel’s March 23 election, Israel’s political scene is volatile—but Shas leader Aryeh Deri, a seasoned politician of 30 years, seems to know what the day after the election has in store.
In an...
Religious pluralism won’t be achieved in the courts
Reactions to this week’s Israeli Supreme Court ruling about recognizing the validity of conversions to Judaism by non-Orthodox denominations are all out of proportion to its actual significance in terms of the number of those affected...
Red-state Mizrahi Israelis don’t want liberal sympathy or solutions
Liberal American Jews are generally confused when it comes to Israelis. On the one hand, they claim to have empathy and support for Jews of color. But in order to inflate the number of...
Elections loom as Likud, Blue and White talks collapse, bill to delay budget vote...
Israel’s government on Monday night failed to pass a bill allowing it to postpone a vote on the state budget, effectively signaling the demise of the 23rd Knesset.
The coalition had to push the state...
Red-state Mizrahi Israelis don’t want liberal sympathy or solutions
Liberal American Jews are generally confused when it comes to Israelis. On the one hand, they claim to have empathy and support for Jews of color. But in order to inflate the number of...
Joint Arab List fumes as Ra’am Party head skips vote to dissolve Knesset
Members of the Joint Arab List are up in arms after Ra’am Party head Mansour Abbas, along with three of his fellow party members, skipped a vote to disperse the Knesset on Wednesday.
Faction officials went so...
Knesset edges closer to dissolution as Gantz sides with opposition
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Tuesday that his Blue and White faction will side with the opposition on Wednesday when its motion to dissolve the Knesset comes up for a vote in...