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A fraught 48 hours portend major crisis for Netanyahu’s coalition

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“Pull yourself together,” was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warning to his government partners after 48 hours of coalition turmoil. It all started after Shas, the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party, demanded approval for the “rabbis bill.”...
Workers at the Central Elections Committee warehouse in Shoham prepare ballot boxes for Israel's Nov. 1 national election, Oct.12, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Leaders of anti-reform protests to run in local elections

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The protest movement against the Netanyahu government's judicial reform program is attempting to transform itself into a democratic political force, running candidates under the name "New Contract" in municipal elections set for Oct. 31. "New...
Otzma Yehudit Chairman Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks to supporters at party headquarters in Jerusalem on Election Day, Nov. 1, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Otzma Yehudit drops boycott of Knesset votes

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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit Party announced on Tuesday an end to its boycott of Knesset votes following the targeted killing of three top Islamic Jihad terrorists in the Gaza Strip. “Following...
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at a ceremony held for outgoing Supreme Court judge George Karra, May 29, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Attorney general authorizes police investigation of right-wing MK

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Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has given the green light for a police investigation of Knesset Member Zvika Fogel of the Otzma Yehudit Party on suspicion of inciting terrorism, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. In a radio...

Ben-Gvir: I am ‘anti-racist’

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Itamar Ben-Gvir, head of the Otzmah Yehudit (“Jewish Strength”) party, issued a statement on Tuesday responding to reports that U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) recently warned that his inclusion in a future Israeli government...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid with head of the Ra'am Party, Mansour Abbas, in the Knesset assembly hall on June 21, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Report: Lapid rules out cooperation with ‘extremists’ Otzma Yehudit, Ra’am

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In an apparent about-face, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid ruled out on Wednesday the possibility of forming a coalition with the far-right Otzma Yehudit and Islamist Ra’am parties for the Nov. 1 elections. Speaking at...
Illustration from a polling station in Jerusalem, as Israelis vote in their general elections, on March 23, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Post-Israeli elections, US Jewish groups blast inclusion of Religious Zionist Party

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U.S. Jewish groups reacted to Israel’s election results, which have once again ended in a political stalemate with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponents falling short of the necessary numbers mandated to...
Itamar Ben-Gvir of Otzma Yehudit Party attends the Srugim conference in Jerusalem on Sept. 2, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Otzma Yehudit head says he’ll quit election once Netanyahu quits Oslo Accords

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Otzma Yehudit Party leader Itamar Ben-Gvir announced on Wednesday that he had offered Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a deal, according to which he would withdraw from Monday’s national election if certain conditions were...
Itamar Ben-Gvir of Otzma Yehudit Party attends the Srugim conference in Jerusalem on Sept. 2, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Report: Netanyahu seeks to push Otzma Yehudit over electoral threshold

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s advisers are holding talks with the head of the far-right Otzma Yehudit Party to try to find a way for Otzma to pass the electoral threshold in Israel’s March...
Zehut Party leader Moshe Feiglin casts his ballot during Israel's general election on April 9, 2019. Photo by Photo by Hillel Maeir/Flash90.

Likud pressuring Otzma Yehudit and Zehut parties to drop out of election

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party is pressuring two smaller right-wing parties to drop out of the Sept. 17 national elections, according to Israeli media reports. Neither of the two parties—Otzma Yehudit and...