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US won’t say if it would work with Yair Golan, who denounced haredi Jews

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The U.S. State Department commented for the first time on Thursday on controversial statements about ultra-Orthodox Jews by the incoming chief of Israel’s Labor Party, Yair Golan, who was elected with 95% of the...
Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, Dec. 7, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Israeli Labor Party leader Michaeli to quit politics

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Merav Michaeli, the head of Israel’s opposition Labor Party, will retire from political life after serving out her current term in the Knesset, she announced on Thursday. “The State of Israel is currently in a...
Victorian Labor Party delegates at the state conference, June 2023. Source: Twitter via AIJAC.

Australian governing party branch calls to recognize ‘Palestine’

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The governing Australian Labor Party’s branch in Victoria, the country’s second-most-populous state, passed a resolution calling on the federal government to “move immediately to recognise Palestine.” The measure was “carried by the voices,” meaning it...

Lapid ‘behaved like a cannibalistic pig,’ says senior member of his center-left bloc

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As the results of Tuesday’s general election in Israel began to solidify on Wednesday, senior officials in Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s political bloc harshly criticized his failed campaign. “ behaved like a cannibalistic pig who...

Labor Party leader: Judea and Samaria will not belong to Israel

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Israeli Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli said on Saturday that the West Bank, known in Israel as Judea and Samaria, would ultimately not belong to the Jewish state. “It’s a shame to invest in a place...
Israeli Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli during the signing of an agreement for the operation of Dan electric buses in Tel Aviv, Feb. 22, 2022. Photo by Avshalom sassoni/Flash90.

Labor’s Meirav Michaeli ‘will break up the coalition,’ Gantz’s inner circle warns

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s threat to topple the coalition unless his bill to raise salaries for career soldiers is approved by the Knesset has put the government in crisis mode. Transportation Minister Merav...
Dalia Rabin, the daughter of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, speaks in Tel Aviv during a discussion circles event on the subject of “sanctity of life” on the eve of the 26th memorial day marking Rabin's assassination, Oct. 17, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Knesset memorial session turns heated as Israel marks 26 years since Rabin assassination

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Israel marked 26 years since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as part of a series of memorial events that began on Sunday night and continued through Monday. The date is recognized annually on...
Labor Party member Ibtisam Mara'ana-Menuhin arrives for a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, asking to overturn the decision of the Central Elections Committee to disqualify her candidacy in the March 23 general election, Feb. 24, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Controversial Arab MK wins Israeli TV award

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Labor Party Knesset member Ibtisam Mara’ana, whose nomination for the Knesset sparked a legal battle, was named one of the winners of the Israeli Academy for Film and Television’s 2020 awards on Sunday. The ceremony,...
Labor Party member Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin during the first meeting of newly elected members in Tel Aviv, Feb. 2, 2021. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Robbing Israel’s far-left Labor leader of plausible deniability

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Much of the Israeli right is furious about the Supreme Court ruling on Sunday that Labor Party candidate Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin is kosher to run for a Knesset seat in the March 23 election. The ruling overturned the Feb....
Ibtisam Mara'ana-Menuhin arrives for a hearing at Israel's Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Feb. 24, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel’s Supreme Court paves way for controversial Labor candidate’s Knesset run

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Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday overturned a ruling by the Central Elections Committee that banned Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin, No. 7 on the Labor Party’s Knesset slate, from vying in the March 23 election. Mara’ana-Menuhin, an Arab-Israeli filmmaker from...