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Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 1:23 PM Get email notification for articles from Jonathan Lis Follow Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 1:23 PM Shas party leader Arye Dery is seeking to pass legislation that would resolve Israel’s electoral stalemate through the direct election of the prime minister. Shas Knesset member Michael Malkieli introduced the bill on Monday that would provide for such a direct election.  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his blessing several days ago to the effort at a meeting...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The anti-Netanyahu bloc’s proposal, which passed with 60 votes in favor and 51 against, would give parties two seats on the panel for every six Knesset seats. Consequently, that bloc would get 16 seats and Netanyahu’s bloc only 14, while Naftali Bennetts Yamina would get two seats and Abbas Mansours United Arab List one. This would give Yamina considerable power to decide the outcome of close votes. "I thank my partners," Yesh Atid ...

Israel is trapped amid the substantive diplomatic moves to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal and Iran's interest of clinching a deal before its presidential election in June

Get email notification for articles from Jonathan Lis Follow Apr. 18, 2021 10:36 PM Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party is leaning toward supporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents in Monday’s vote on the composition of the Knesset’s arrangements committee. The committee is in charge of setting the Knesset’s agenda and dealing with legislation during the interim period between an election and the formation of a new government. Thus it will likely consider both opposition bil...

Get email notification for articles from Ben Samuels Follow Apr. 18, 2021 11:03 PM WASHINGTON – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the J Street 2021 National Conference on Sunday that moving away from a two-state solution would lead to a "de facto apartheid one-state solution," calling this something neither the Palestinians nor the world would accept. "We are ready to resume peace negotiations with our Israeli counterpart on the basis of international legitimacy, resolutions and sig...

Get email notification for articles from Ronit Marzan Follow Apr. 18, 2021 11:35 PM Four foundational experiences influenced leadership and voting patterns among Israeli Arabs: Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, which Arabs call the Nakba; the bloody Land Day of 1976; the second intifada that began in 2000; and the Arab Spring uprisings that started in 2011. After 1948, Israel’s Arab citizens were represented by clan leaders who operated through satellite parties (lists) of the Zionist...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The Iranian attack, the third in about six weeks, came in response to a number of attacks attributed to Israel on Iranian vessels and took place after the Israeli attacks had been made public for the first time. The NYT, unencumbered by Israeli censorship, could refer to the Israeli attacks as a fact, and report that Israel had asked for the Americans’ help specifically in protecting the last vessel to be attacked, Hyperion Ray. Perhaps...

Benny Nuriely Apr. 15, 2021 11:33 PM Try to imagine people who are trying on a daily basis to convince us that the government has to give the power and money to the wealthy, to deny workers the ability to exercise political influence and to deny the poor support in order to push them into the hands of employers. These mantras of hate are foreign to most of us, but in Israeli there is an active multi-armed octopus that is spreading them. The head of the octopus is the Kohelet Economic Forum. The...

Get email notification for articles from Yaniv Kubovich Follow Apr. 14, 2021 6:16 AM June 6, 2005, just after 6 A.M. At the Qalqilyah checkpoint is a long line of Palestinian cars waiting to take passengers from the West Bank to Israel, for work. Facing them are soldiers from Caracal, a combat battalion. One sees two Palestinian women entering a taxi that’s moving toward Israeli territory. She asks them for ID, and a scuffle breaks out. The commander of the checkpoint, Lauren Dagan Amos, one...

Get email notification for articles from Amos Harel Follow Apr. 14, 2021 6:15 AM Most of the people who brought us an unnecessary, preventable war in the Gaza Strip in summer 2014, 51 days with no victory, are also involved in what’s happening today – a steady, dangerous slide toward the possibility of an even worse military conflict with Iran. Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz and Aviv Kochavi were all there that wretched summer, though the latter two have since been promoted – respective...