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Yamina chief Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference at the Knesset on May 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Senior officials in the bloc of Knesset parties opposing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were quoted Tuesday evening as saying a government had been nearly formed after the Yesh Atid party reached understandings with other opposition factions, though it is waiting for Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett. Bennett has refused to commit to either the pro- or anti-Netanyahu blocs,...

Likud party MK Yehudah Glick in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2018. (Gili Yaari/FLASH90) “My personal family history and years-long public experience have taught me to never take the miracle of the existence of the State of Israel for granted,” he said in a statement, highlighting the need to heal and unite the nation following the ongoing Gaza fighting and the extended political crisis, as well as the need to strengthen ties with world Jewry. Herzog has close relationships with lawmakers across t...

Education Minister Yoav Galant vs. Leader of the Opposition MK Yair Lapid. Leader of the Opposition MK Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid-Telem) said on Monday, “We deserve more. Yesterday’s cabinet meeting began with [the Prime Minister and the Alternate Prime Minister]… Doing their best to insult each other, while 2.5 million children are sitting at home, and while some 90,000 businesses have closed down in the State of Israel, and while, as of this morning, we are at 5,388 [corona-related] de...

45 shares Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman visits Ashdod after clashes broke out between police and ultra-Orthodox people over lockdown restrictions, January 12, 2021. (Flash90) Avigdor Liberman, head of the secularist right-wing Yisrael Beytenu, unveiled the party’s slate for the March 23 elections on Tuesday and vowed not to sit in a coalition with ultra-Orthodox parties. After Liberman, MK Oded Forer got the second spot on the party’s slate, followed by, in descending ord...

Follow Dec. 24, 2020 The Jerusalem Municipality has reportedly agreed to fund the cost of reprinting a billboard photo exhibit of female soccer players by photographer Alma Machness-Kass after Haaretz reported that the images had been defaced earlier this month. The street-level exhibit features pictures of players from the Maccabi Kishronot Hadera soccer team on a series of 15 billboards at the western entrance to the city near Jerusalem’s iconic Strings Bridge. The pictures were defaced abo...