Tag: Naftali Bennett
Netanyahu offers Bennett defense ministry job
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday offered New Right Party leader Naftali Bennett the spot of the country’s defense minister in a move perceived as a way to stop Bennet from joining a...
Can Israel’s party leaders find a way out of third elections?
Israel’s election impasse doesn’t appear to be waning as the country is closing in on nearly two months since its second national election in September. In the past several days, various reports have emerged...
Yamina alliance dissolves hours after polls close
The right-wing Yamina alliance announced shortly after polls closed on Tuesday night that it is breaking break into three separate parties. Yamina leader Ayelet Shaked announced the move in a letter delivered to Knesset...
Yisrael Beiteinu, Blue and White parties sign vote-sharing deal
The Blue and White and Yisrael Beiteinu parties signed a surplus vote-sharing agreement on Monday, drawing censure from across the political spectrum.
Vote-sharing agreements allow for parties to use the extra votes that are not...
Bennett: Netanyahu’s last-minute plea cost New Right chance to form government
New Right leader Naftali Bennett blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the party’s poor showing in the Knesset election Tuesday night, saying his last-minute plea to voters through a torrent of interviews was...
Bennett projects confidence that he can take votes from Gantz and Lapid
The election strategy of the New Right party, co-founded by former leader of Habayit Hayehudi Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, focuses on attracting votes that might otherwise go to Yesh Atid or...
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...
Manifestations of anti-Semitism in the context of ‘yellow jacket’ protest in France
According to a comprehensive survey among 16,300 Jews in 12 European countries released earlier this week by the European Commission and the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), anti-Semitism has once again spiked in...
Israel’s Diaspora affairs minister to devise plan to bring French Jews to Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed Diaspora Affairs and Education Minister Naftali Bennett to formulate a plan to increase Jewish immigration from France.
At the weekly government meeting on Sunday, Bennett spoke of the...
Bennett walks back ultimatum, coalition remains intact
Habayit Hayehudi leader Naftali Bennett and fellow party member Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked announced on Monday that they were standing by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his effort to stabilize the coalition and avert...