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How a rebel alliance brought Israel to brink of elections Analysis: Despite best efforts of Likud and Blue & White leaders to secure a vote to extend budget negotiations and thereby avoid dissolving parliament, MKs from both parties hid, lied and plotted to ensure the bill did not pass Moran Azulay | Published: 12.22.20 , 12:05 Long hours of Knesset drama ended in the early hours of Tuesday morning with a clear message: A simple majority of lawmakers opposed a compromise to prolong budget n...

78 shares People who came on a flight from England arrive at Jerusalems Dan Panorama Hotel, which is being used as a quarantine facility, on December 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) 1. Third time’s alarm: After the media went buck wild over hero Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brave decision to cut to the front of the vaccine line on live TV, gaining himself priceless airtime and the cover of every newspaper, the media has shifted to the drive to get everyone else vaccinated, f...

Likud, Blue & White at odds as budget compromise set to fail in Knesset plenum Knesset committee approves the bill that would delay the deadline for passing of a state budget, but MKs appear unconvinced, vowing to reject it; Likud says Gantz dragging Israel into elections because his party is falling apart Moran Azulay | Published: 12.21.20 , 18:03 Likud and coalition partner Blue & White are at odds over demands for solving the political deadlock as the bill, which intends to help the two ...

104 shares Illustrative: Members of the Knessets Constitution, Law and Justice Committee vote on the Coronavirus Bill on July 22, 2020. (Knesset) New elections appeared almost inevitable Monday evening after the coalition’s Likud and Blue and White parties both said that their negotiations on delaying the deadline to pass a state budget had broken down and blamed each other for the failure to reach an agreement. Blue and White has walked back all the agreements it reached with Likud, Pr...

Blue and White MK Asaf Zamir at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 21, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Zamir resigned from his ministerial position in October, citing the passage of controversial legislation to restrict protests and saying Netanyahu was more concerned by his legal woes than the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. That same month, Haimovich said a growing number of members of the party were considering dissolving the partnership with Netanyahu. Shefa, along with Haimovich and Zam...

Minister of Defense Benny Gantz visits the Jerusalem Municipality on November 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Blue and White leader Benny Gantz has been holding one-on-one meetings with his party lawmakers to check who will remain loyal to him if the coalition crisis results in early elections — or if he temporarily resolves the situation by giving in to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demands, which may include giving up on his turn at being premier, the Kan public broadcaster repor...

143 shares Benny Gantz (left) and Gabi Ashkenazi of the Blue and White party arrive to give a joint a statement in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90) Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi is about to bolt the Blue and White party in the highly likely scenario of elections being called by next week, according to a senior source in the party. As Benny Gantz’s party loses more and more ground in opinion polls, two members of its parliamentary bloc, Yoaz Hendel and Zvi Ha...