Tag: Likud Party
Netanyahu names veteran Mideast reporter and best-selling author as strategic adviser
Aaron Klein, a veteran Middle East reporter and New York Times best-selling author, has been retained by Israel’s Likud Party as a strategic and communications consultant to party leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
As Israel’s Supreme Court weighs in on unity government, how much power should it...
In a landmark ruling, Israel’s Supreme Court rejected all petitions against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forming a new government while under indictment, and against the emergency unity government deal signed by Netanyahu and...
Ahead of High Court rulings, Likud spells out ‘red lines’
Following High Court hearings earlier this week of petitions challenging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ability to form a government and the unity deal between Netanyahu’s Likud and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party, a senior...
Scales of Israeli justice
Israel’s High Court of Justice just spent two full days hearing petitions against the continued rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the national-unity deal that he signed last month with Blue and White Party leader...
Will the Israeli Supreme Court doom Netanyahu-Gantz unity government?
Israel’s Supreme Court has finished two days of hearings concerning the recent unity agreement between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz.
The hearings were launched after several groups, which...
‘If Yamina wants to join the government, it has to be flexible’
Likud Party officials said over the weekend that while they’d like to see the Yamina in the government, the right-wing party would have to be flexible. A senior Likud official told Israel Hayom that the “portfolio...
Netanyahu, Gantz ink deal to form new government after year-long political impasse
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz have signed a new coalition agreement to form a “national emergency government” ending a political deadlock that lasted more than a year.
“I...
Is Israel on its way to a 4th election?
Deafened under the constant drumbeat of the virus crisis has been the ongoing efforts to form a new Israeli unity government.
What was perceived over a week ago as a quick solution between the Bibi-led...
Edelstein’s sudden resignation as Knesset speaker leaves country’s political future uncertain
Israel’s political chaos took another surprise twist on Wednesday when Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein suddenly resigned. The snap decision by Edelstein came after he rejected an order by Israel’s Supreme Court to...
‘Constitutional’ sabotage of the democratic process
This week, Israel’s “center-left” bloc of political parties formally jettisoned former Israeli Chief Justice Aaron Barak’s constitutional vision and instead embraced the understanding of parliamentary sovereignty most commonly associated with the right. For decades,...