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Yamina party chairman Naftali Bennett at the Knesset, May 30, 2021. The government that’s being formed by Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid will be a parity government. The word originates from German: parität; and Latin: paritas – equality), or equivalence. But the next government will achieve the equivalence in a somewhat unusual way so that on its right side there will be only Bennett and Sa’ar (12 coalition seats), and on the left – everyone, i...

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut The High Court on Sunday ruled on petitions against the NIS 11 billion ($3.4 billion) increase in the budget that had been passed through an amendment to the Basic Law: The Knesset by the previous Knesset. The Basic Laws were originally intended to be draft chapters of a future Israeli constitution, but the actual process of drafting a constitution has been on hold since 1950. For the past 70 years or so, the Basic Laws act as a de facto constitution until t...

MK Meir Kahane in 1985. During the Knesset swearing-in ceremony, which was held in the presence of Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, each of the newly elected members of the 24th Knesset were supposed to stand and pledge, “I bear allegiance to the State of Israel and faithfully discharge my mandate in the Knesset.” But the oath taken by Joint Arab List MKs Ayman Odeh, Samy Abu Shahadeh, Ofer Cassif, and Aida Tuma-Slima went radically different. They declared: “I bear allegiance to ...

Dec 29, 2020 Croatian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gordan Grlić-Radman and Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi signed the MOU on Monday in a virtual ceremony. By Aryeh Savir, TPS Israel and Croatia signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a strategic partnership between the Foreign Affairs ministries, aiming to promote political and economic cooperation and strengthen relations in areas of mutual interest. Croatian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gordan Grlić-Radman in Zagreb and Isra...

Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin vs. Supreme Court President Esther Hayut. Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin (Likud) on Tuesday morning sent a letter to Supreme Court President Esther Hayut ahead of a hearing scheduled for Tuesday in the High Court of Justice of petitions against Israel’s Nationality Law, warning against any judicial intervention in basic laws, which comprise Israel’s constitutional foundation. “The Knesset is the legislature and it also holds the authority of the Constituent Assemb...