Tag: Likud Party
‘Loyal student of Herzl and Jabotinsky,’ Sa’ar hopes to become Israel’s next premier
For the fourth time in two years, Israel will go to elections on March 23 to elect its 24th Knesset. While early polling points to a similar inconclusive fate with the previous three, there...
Netanyahu challenger Sa’ar hires Lincoln Project founders as campaign advisers
New Hope Party leader Gideon Sa’ar has hired four of the founders of the Lincoln Project to serve as his advisers ahead of Israel’s March 23 elections, a campaign official confirmed on Sunday.
The Lincoln...
Yet another Likud MK bolts party to join Sa’ar’s New Hope movement
Likud Knesset member Sharren Haskel resigned from the Knesset on Wednesday and announced that she would be joining former Likud lawmaker Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope Party.
“This past year has made it clear how big...
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...
What’s behind an Israeli Islamist politician’s budding relationship with Netanyahu?
Joint Arab List Knesset member Mansour Abbas raised eyebrows and angered some of his fellow Arab lawmakers after seeking to improve ties with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud Party, yet the...
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...
Is a ‘New Right’ ascending in Israel?
A constant stream of political polls gives clues to the stability of Israel’s current unity government anchored by Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and challenger Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party. The two opposing parties...
Media polls show Yamina to grow, Likud and Blue and White to slip
Media polls released on Thursday show that if Israeli elections were held today, Yamina would grow, while the Likud and the Blue and White parties would slip.
Channel 13 News projected that Likud would win 30...
Likud: Settlement leaders opposing Trump plan are ‘irresponsible,’ ‘crazy’
Two weeks before Israel plans to begin applying sovereignty in the Jordan Valley and parts of Judea and Samaria, some settlement leaders on Sunday continued to vocally oppose the Trump administration’s “Peace to Prosperity”...
Likud, Blue and White to work towards decriminalizing cannabis
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and Vice Premier Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party issued a joint statement on Tuesday saying they would work to “resolve the issue of decriminalization and legalization”...