Why Bibi News Today

Get email notification for articles from Nir Hasson Follow May. 6, 2021 3:19 PM More than 180 Israeli scientists and intellectuals have called on chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague not to accept Israels conclusions arising from its investigation into alleged war crimes. Instead, the group of Israelis suggested in a letter addressed to Chief ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda that the court obtain the assistance of Israeli human rights organizations to gather evidence...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio "An Israeli unity government isnt a compromise, but a goal," Lapid told a press conference. "This is what Israel needs now." Lapid, Yesh Atid party leader who was tapped on Wednesday by President Reuven Rivlin to form a government after Netanyahu’s 28-day mandate expired, counts on the backing of parties across the political spectrum who want to see Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replaced after 12 consecutive years in power. Lapid a...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio Sundays shooting attack at Tapuah junction in the West Bank left 19-year-old yeshiva students wounded, one of them critically. Open gallery view Muntassir Shalabi. Residents of the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya identified on Tuesday the shooter as Muntassir Shalabi, who is also U.S. citizen. One resident said that Shalabi recently returned from the United States, where he had lived for several years, and that he was in dire economic strai...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio Open gallery view Itzik Saidian Credit: Itzik Saidians Facebook page As the protest began, the head of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organization Idan Kleiman said, "Not one of us went off to battle with a checkbook or a lawyer. We are demanding that a government meeting be called to find the means and the budget [to fund a rehabilitation program]." Kleiman added, "We are not moving from this spot until the reform is enacted. We know very wel...

Follow May. 5, 2021 Support for the inclusion of Arabs in politics has reached a new high, with over 29 percent of Israeli Jews supporting both the inclusion of Arab parties in a future coalition and the appointment of Arab ministers. According to a newly released poll of 762 Israelis conducted in Hebrew and Arabic by the Israel Democracy Institute in late April, 5.2 percent of Jews polled strongly supported including the Arab parties in the government, with an additional 24.1 percent indicatin...

Follow May. 5, 2021 Israels police commissioner asked the attorney general to see to the formation of an external panel, headed by a judge, to examine the incident last week in which 45 people were crushed to death while celebrating the Lag Ba’omer festival at Mount Meron in northern Israel. Police commissioner Yaakov Shabtai made the request Monday after asking to speak with Avichai Mendelblit ahead of a meeting of police commanders. People close to Shabtai say that he requested an “inqu...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio This report comes only two months after a survey, conducted by the Health Ministry and Tel Aviv Municipality, has showed that about 85 percent of asylum seekers in Tel Aviv are said to be suffering from food insecurity, and more than half of them showed signs of actual hunger. The coronavirus landed a devastating blow to the city’s asylum seekers. Most of them are not entitled to government benefits and were left without a job followin...

Follow May. 4, 2021 On Saturday night, a young volunteer from one of the rescue organizations returned to Bnei Brak after the funeral of Yedidya Hayut, the 13-year-old who had been killed in the stampede at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Mount Meron. He said that his arms still hurt from the resuscitations he carried out Thursday night – 16 in all, not all of them successful. He couldn’t sleep at night, and he said he wasn’t the only one: “As a Zaka [emergency response] member, ...

Get email notification for articles from Ido Efrati Follow May. 4, 2021 6:18 PM Israel’s Institute for Biological Research is considering restarting its ongoing clinical trial from the beginning on the COVID-19 vaccine that it is developing. The step would be taken in the hope of developing a version that is effective with a single dose, Haaretz has learned. According to sources, it became apparent from the first and second phases of the clinical trials on the two-shot Israeli BriLife vaccin...

Get email notification for articles from Amir Tibon Follow May. 4, 2021 3:59 PM At the stroke of midnight at the end of the day Tuesday, the 28 days that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was granted to form a new government officially end. And as the clock winds down, Netanyahu is attempting everything he possibly can to stop Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid from getting a chance to form a government. Netanyahu is afraid that if President Reuven Rivlin officially tasks Lapid on Wednesday wit...