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MK Yifat Shasha-Biton. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) New Hope MK Yifat Shasha-Biton, the designated education minister in the emerging coalition set to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, filed a NIS 500,000 ($154,000) libel lawsuit Wednesday against the premier’s son Yair for comments he made about her in December. Shasha-Biton became a lawmaker for Netanyahu’s Likud after Moshe Kahlon’s now-defunct Kulanu party merged with it. During the coronavirus pandemic, as chairwoman of the Knesse...

Get email notification for articles from Gideon Levy Follow Jun. 10, 2021 12:09 AM The anticipated investiture of Israel’s first religious-Zionist prime minister could also usher in a new type of national conversation, one of condescending, religious-patriotic schmaltz, saccharine and pathetic. It is not exactly new: This brand of discourse has starred on the hills of the West Bank for half a century, with all the sanctimonious gazing heavenward. From there it spread to the army and the medi...

Israel’s democratic transition is set for Sunday, but nothing is certain amid the prime minister’s scorched-earth campaign to wreck his opponents’ coalition.

'Change bloc' pushing Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin to set swearing-in on June 9, but absence of item on legislative agenda indicates Netanyahu seeking more time to torpedo coalition

The easiest way to figure out which side is telling the truth would be to read the coalition agreements signed by the parties set to join the Lapid-Bennett government.

Yamina continues to provide suffering Knesset members with stomach aches and anxiety as Benjamin Netanyahu zeroes in on them and targets them with his unique steamroller

The head of Yamina has made himself an accomplice to what the right sees as the left’s take-down of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu through illegitimate means.

In speech, PM-designate decries premier's tactics in pressuring rightist MKs to oppose change government, urges Knesset speaker to call vote on coalition this week

Leaders of the eight factions in the so-called 'change government' to meet for the first time since coalition was announced

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a corruption investigation and is not expected to give up easily