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Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri delivers a statement to the media a day before the Israeli election, in Jerusalem on March 1, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Shas leader confident Yamina, New Hope will ‘return to the fold’

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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...
The Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 4, 2020. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.

Religious pluralism won’t be achieved in the courts

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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...
Right-wing activists and supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rally outside his residence in Jerusalem, Aug. 20, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Red-state Mizrahi Israelis don’t want liberal sympathy or solutions

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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...
Blue and White Party lawmakers leave the Knesset plenum hall, Feb. 10, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Elections loom as Likud, Blue and White talks collapse, bill to delay budget vote...

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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...
Right-wing activists and supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rally outside his residence in Jerusalem, Aug. 20, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Red-state Mizrahi Israelis don’t want liberal sympathy or solutions

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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...
Mansour Abbas of the Ra'am-Balad Party holds a press conference after a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Joint Arab List fumes as Ra’am Party head skips vote to dissolve Knesset

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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...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz visits the Jerusalem Municipality on Nov. 10, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

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...

November 4, 1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated

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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is fatally shot after attending a peace rally held in Tel Aviv’s Kings Square in Israel. Rabin later died in surgery at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. The 73-year-old prime minister...
Blue and White Party leaders Benny Gantz and Gabi Ashkenazi celebrate as the results in the Israeli general elections are announced, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 9, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Report: Gantz’s call for polygraphs sparks outrage after closed-door talk leaked

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Monday demanded that lawmakers from his Blue and White faction undergo polygraph testing following a leak from a meeting during which he admitted he does not expect Israeli...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz (right) visits Bnei Brak, Sept. 06, 2020. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Gantz’s ultimatum: ‘Pass a 2021 budget by November or we’ll go to elections’

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Monday vowed to dissolve the government if a state budget for 2021 isn’t passed by the end of October. “If there is no budget, we’ll go to elections,” Gantz...