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Shaked doesn't rule out prospect of forming coalition with 'change bloc' after Smotrich accuses Yamina of pretending to drop negotiations with Netanyahu's rivals

Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett with a fan, May 05, 2021. Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman estimated on Sunday morning that there is a reasonable chance the Lapid-Bennett coalition government would be formed this week, saying, “I don’t think the gaps are big.” “If this coalition is formed, it will be thanks to Netanyahu,” Liberman told Reshet Bet radio. “All the people in it have worked alongside him and since then they have learned not to trust him.” Advertisement ); ...

Get email notification for articles from Jonathan Lis Follow May. 7, 2021 4:00 PM Right-wing Yamina leader Naftali Bennett and centrist Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid held two meetings on Friday, in a bid to expedite talks on a unity government that could see Benjamin Netanyahu replaced as prime minister. After Netanyahu missed his Tuesday deadline, the president tasked Lapid this week with forming a government, giving him 28 days to do so. Together with Bennett, he hopes to secure majority bac...

BICOM 7th May 2021 The Financial Times report that Qatar’s finance minister, Ali Shareef al-Emadi, was arrested on corruption charges. Al-Emadi was appointed finance minister in 2013 when the current Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani came to power. He sits on the board of the country’s sovereign wealth fund and is the chairman of the Qatar National Bank. British financial magazine The Banker named al-Emadi its “Finance Minister of t...

Yamina MK Amichai Chikli seen at the Knesset on April 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitousi/Flash90) Yamina MK Amichai Chikli on Thursday firmed up his vow to not serve in a potential unity government presided over by his own party leader, saying he would vote against such a coalition if it were officially proposed. His remarks came a day after President Reuven Rivlin tasked Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid with building a government in the wake of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to establish a...

Raoul Wootliff is the The Times of Israels political correspondent. Yamina chair Naftali Bennett (C) and party members seen with supporters at a party event in Petah Tikva after election day, March 23, 2021. (Avi Dishi/Flash90) As he works to prevent the formation of an alternative government, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been attempting to persuade Yamina Knesset members to defect from the party and declare their opposition to entering a coalition with left-wing factions, a number of ...

She commended Bennett’s effort to cooperate with various parts of the Israeli public. Likud figures said in recent weeks that they believed they could enlist Kara because he had entered the Knesset to advance the self-employed community. Kara said this week he received proposals to become a minister and advance any issue he saw fit regarding the self-employed. But Kara rejected the offer and instead blasted Netanyahu. “You failed to take care of self-employed people and small business owner...

0 shares Among the 16 new lawmakers being sworn in today are: Gilad Kariv, the first Reform rabbi, and Itamar Ben Gvir, a disciple of extremist rabbi Meir Kahane and head of the neo-Kahanist Otzma Yehudit party (elected as a faction within the Religious Zionism party). Read more about the new faces here. In total, 30 women were elected, the same as the record high set by the outgoing 23rd Knesset. (The total number of women who served in the 20th Knesset eventually swelled to 36, after se...

0 shares The 24th Knesset will be sworn in this afternoon, under the threat of a fifth round of elections in two years. President Reuven Rivlin will open the ceremony at 4 p.m. at Israel’s parliament. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier today was given first shot at attempting to form a coalition, but has no clear path to a government. (New faces in the 24th Knesset, from top left) Religious Zionism’s Itamar Ben Gvir, Avi Maoz, Simcha Rothman and Michal Waldiger; Yamina’s Amic...

4 shares Yesh Atid, with MK Orna Barbivai at left, presents its candidates list for the March 23, 2021 election to the Central Elections Committee, in the Knesset, February 3, 2021 (GPO) Registration opened Wednesday for parties to submit their lists of candidates in the upcoming Knesset elections, with several major parties unveiling their slates and several small parties quitting the race. The slates can be handed to the Central Elections Committee until Thursday at midnight, meaning th...