Tag: Likud
Likud primary results: Netanyahu rival Gideon Sa’ar places high on ticket
The Likud’s Knesset ticket rounded into shape on Wednesday after most of the votes from the party’s primary election on Tuesday night were counted.
Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz finished first on the party ticket, followed...
Fragmentation of right-wing bloc puts Netanyahu leadership at risk
Likud activists and a candidate for the Knesset in the ruling party told JNS that they were seriously concerned about the fragmentation of the right-wing bloc, and that a similar scenario played out in...
Israeli Ambassador to UN Danon expected to run for Likud Party primaries
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, popular Likud politician Danny Danon, is expected to resign from his post in order to run for the Likud Party primaries.
Danon’s office denied in a statement media reports...
Running the Jewish nation with a razor-thin majority
Since Avigdor Lieberman’s resignation as Defense Minister and Yisrael Beytenu’s departure from the government in mid-November, the ruling coalition led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now has just 61 Knesset members out of...
Likud: Left’s attempt to implicate Netanyahu in ‘Case 3000′ fails
Opposition Knesset members lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday after the Israel police said there was sufficient evidence to indict seven suspects, including his lawyer, in a corruption case involving...
Likud gains, Zionist Union tanks in new pre-election poll
If a general Knesset election were held today, the Likud Party would win 32 seats, up from the 30 it currently holds in the Knesset, a new poll from Hadashot News has found. A...
Netanyahu vows to pass nation-state bill by end of Knesset’s current session
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Sunday to ensure that the controversial nation-state bill passes the legislative process by the end of the Knesset’s summer session on July 22.
The bill defines Israel as...
New poll shows Netanyahu’s Likud far ahead with 31 seats
If a general Knesset election were held right now, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party would win 31 seats, according to a poll conducted last week by Channel 10 News.
The poll, featured in...
Netanyahu’s Likud gains political strength as US pulls out of Iran deal, poll finds
A new poll conducted by Channel 2 on Wednesday projected 35 seats in the Knesset for the Likud Party if elections were held now, an increase of seven seats from a similar survey conducted...
Likud gains in poll on heels of Netanyahu’s Iran revelation
If general elections were called at this time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party would win 32 seats, a new poll from Channel 20 conducted after Netanyahu’s press conference on Iran’s nuclear program on...