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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud Party, attends an event with other party members after the release of initial voting results in the Israeli general elections, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on Sep. 17, 2019. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.

Netanyahu names veteran Mideast reporter and best-selling author as strategic adviser

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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...
Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut arrives at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 3, 2020, for a hearing on the legality of the coalition agreement between Likud and Blue and White parties. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.

As Israel’s Supreme Court weighs in on unity government, how much power should it...

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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...
Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut arrives at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 3, 2020, to hear a petition against the coalition agreement between the Blue and White and Likud parties. Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.

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...
Israeli Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and Supreme court Justices arrive to a second day court session on petitions against the coalition agreement between Gantz's Blue and White Party and Netanyahu's Likud at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 3, 2020. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon

Scales of Israeli justice

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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...
Attorneys from all sides are seen preparing as they wait for Israeli Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and Supreme court Justices to enter the room for a second day court session on petitions against the coalition agreement between Gantz's Blue and White Party and Netanyahu's Likud at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 4, 2020. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon

Will the Israeli Supreme Court doom Netanyahu-Gantz unity government?

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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...
Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett attends the launch of the Yamina Party campaign, on Feb. 12, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

‘If Yamina wants to join the government, it has to be flexible’

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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...
Blue and White Party election posters show leader Benny Gantz and Likud head Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Israel's third round of elections within a year, Feb. 18, 2020. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Netanyahu, Gantz ink deal to form new government after year-long political impasse

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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...
Photo: Israeli 2013 election ballots (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Is Israel on its way to a 4th election?

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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...
Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein gives a press statement in Israel's parliament in Jerusalem on Jan. 12, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Edelstein’s sudden resignation as Knesset speaker leaves country’s political future uncertain

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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

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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,...