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It’s a pattern too consistent to be coincidence: A dramatic crisis opens the political window for change, and Israeli governments find the courage to step through it

Haviv Rettig Gur is The Times of Israels senior analyst. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, center wearing black mask, during a cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on July 25, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool) For nearly forty years, an Israeli state budget has always come into the world in two parts. One half of the budget is a bill with all the numbers: endless columns of projected income vs. expenditures, drilled down to each agency and program. The other half is known only by th...

Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, July 21 Xinhua 22 Jul 2021, 08:05 GMT+10 ISTANBUL -- Turkey is inoculating citizens against COVID-19 without intermission during the Eid al-Adha holiday, local media reported Wednesday. According to the state-run Anadolu agency, mobile healthcare vaccination teams have been deployed to several locations across the country to provide services to holidaymakers. (Turkey-Vaccination-COVID19) ---- JERUSALEM -- Israel has announced an agriculture reform...

Naftali Bennett’s Knesset address Naftali Bennett’s Knesset address Israel’s incoming prime minister expresses his thanks to those who came before him and lays out his plan for the future. Israeli Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett at the swearing in of the new Israeli government, at the Knesset, June 13, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90. Spread the word. (June 14, 2021 / JNS) H.E. President Reuven Rivlin; President-elect Isaac Herzog; Mr. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; ...

Right-wing lawmaker Eli Avidar plans to vote independently after new government is confirmed, dissatisfied that he wasn't given ministerial portfolio

Yamina head lays out priorities of new coalition that he says will work 'for all the citizens of Israel' and bring an end to a cycle of elections and divisiveness

Israel Prize-winning educator Miriam Peretz, who lost 2 sons in battle, vies to become country's first woman president, while Isaac Herzog aims to follow in his father's footsteps

Full cabinet of at least 26 members said to include one-third women, one-third religious Jews, one-third Sephardi origin; will also have Arab and Ethiopian-origin ministers

Analysis: While officials in the so-called 'coalition for change' say negotiations are at an advanced stage, there are still gaps to be bridged as right-wing parties want portfolios bound for other parties and majority in the Judicial Selection Committee

0 shares Left to right: Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid (Miriam Alster/Flash90); Yamina party chief Naftali Bennett; and New Hope party head Gideon Saar (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope party renewed negotiations with Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid Thursday, in a move that puts further pressure on Yamina chief Naftali Bennett to join a potential “change government” ousting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A Yesh Atid MK expressed confidence that all relevant matters...