Tag: Labor Party
US won’t say if it would work with Yair Golan, who denounced haredi Jews
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...
Israeli Labor Party leader Michaeli to quit politics
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...
Australian governing party branch calls to recognize ‘Palestine’
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
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
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...
Labor’s Meirav Michaeli ‘will break up the coalition,’ Gantz’s inner circle warns
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...
Knesset memorial session turns heated as Israel marks 26 years since Rabin assassination
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...
Controversial Arab MK wins Israeli TV award
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,...
Robbing Israel’s far-left Labor leader of plausible deniability
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....
Israel’s Supreme Court paves way for controversial Labor candidate’s Knesset run
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...