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The Joint List has signed the call by the “change bloc” for a vote to replace Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin of Likud, giving the bid a parliamentary majority despite the objection of Yamina MK Nir Orbach to the move. The predominantly Arab party’s six members add their signatures to the call, in which Levin is set to be replaced with Yesh Atid MK Mickey Levy. The move would enable the new government to be sworn in as early as next Monday. If Levin remains in the speaker’s chair, he can le...

Benjamin Netanyahu Tells Lawmakers to Oppose Dangerous Leftist Government as He Faces Removal On 6/3/21 at 10:26 AM EDT Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on Twitter Thursday that his lawmaker allies need to "oppose this dangerous leftist government," as he faces potential replacement in office with a new coalition government. Opponents of Netanyahu asked parliament on Thursday for a speedy vote to officially remove him from office. Just hours before, Yair Lapid and coalition partn...

Mansour Abbas, head of the Raam party, arrives to take part in coalition talks, at the Maccabiah Village in Ramat Gan on June 2, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90) In an interview with Army Radio, Mansour Abbas of Ra’am calls on fellow Arab party Ta’al to vote with the Lapid-Bennett coalition to oust Yariv Levin of Likud from his position as Knesset speaker. Unconfirmed reports say other Arab parties that are part of the Joint List alliance are said to be mulling supporting Levin’s ouster, ...

BICOM 3rd June 2021 Independent reports on the political developments last night in Israel. All the papers carry the image circulated on Israeli media that showed Yair Lapid, Naftali Bennett and Arab Islamist Raam party leader, Mansour Abbas, signing the agreement, a deal many thought impossible.  The Telegraph writes that “Abbas made history on Wednesday night as he became the first Arab politician to agree to joining an Israeli government – in...

Jun. 3, 2021 5:18 PM The leaders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc intensified their pressure campaign on Thursday against rival lawmakers in a last-ditch bid to prevent them from forming a new government. The prime minister and his allies’ focus has thus far been on prodding lawmakers belonging to the right-wing Yamina party, whose leader Naftali Bennett is set to assume the premiership once the emergent coalition is voted into power by the Knesset, as well as on Manso...

Netanyahu lashed out at his foes on Thursday, signaling that he will continue to exert pressure on former allies who joined the coalition.

June 3, 2021 Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid told President Reuven Rivlin last night that he had succeeded in assembling the required majority to establish a new government. But as the hours pass, the fate of the new government seems uncertain. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others in the Likud and the settler camp are trying to destabilize the coalition with less than two weeks before the swearing-in ceremony for the new government. Current Knesset speaker Yariv Levin is considered o...

Yair Netanyahu, son of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen in court in Tel Aviv on December 10, 2018, (FLASH90) Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s son, says he has been barred from posting on Facebook for 24 hours after he posted a poster advocating a demonstration next to the house of Yamina MK Nir Orbach, who is reportedly contemplating opposing the emerging “change government.” In a tweet, Netanyahu says that “Bolsheviks at Facebook blocked me for 24 hours over this pic...