Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu couldn’t form a government by May 4, so next up is Yesh Atid (There is a Future) Chair
Yair Lapid.
Done deal? Lapid already has a pact with Jewish Home Party (Yamina) leader
Naftali Bennett to divide the prime ministerial duties, with Bennett going first, in a coalition built on nothing more than a shared determination to end Netanyahu’s run as prime minister the longest in Israel’s history. That is if they can assemble the coalition.
Closing ranks. It remains to be seen whether Bennett’s far-right constituency will accept a deal with Lapid, the left and likely Arab Knesset members. Yamina Knesset member
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to form government by deadline, putting his political future in question
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Benjamin (Bibi) NetanyahuMORE missed the deadline to form a governing coalition early Wednesday morning, continuing the country’s political stalemate that has gone on for two years.
Netanyahu had until midnight Tuesday to form a new coalition government, but he failed to meet the deadline, according to The Associated Press.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will now be tasked with deciding how to proceed, including possibly assigning the coalition-building duty to another member of Parliament.
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According to Haaretz, Rivlin has three days to make a decision.
He is expected to talk with leaders of the parties elected in March to the parliament before making a final decision on what action to take, the AP reported.
Israeli AG: Provisional government can launch state probe into Meron disaster
Israeli AG: Provisional government can launch state probe into Meron disaster
“It is our fundamental duty to examine every aspect of the Meron disaster,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells a special Knesset session.
By Yair Altman and Itsik Saban
An Orthodox Jewish man visits Mount Meron in northern Israel, where 45 Israelis lost their lives during a stampede at a Lag B Omer celebration, May 3, 2021. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
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(May 4, 2021 / Israel Hayom) Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit said on Monday that there is no legal impediment to establishing a state commission of inquiry into the Lag B’Omer disaster, not even in the case of a provisional government.
Intel said on Sunday it will invest another US$600 million in Israel to expand its research and development (R&D) and confirmed it was spending US$10 billion on a new chip plant.
The announcement was made during a one-day visit to Israel by Intel Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger as part of a European tour that included Germany and Belgium last week.
Intel is investing US$400 million to turn its Mobileye unit headquartered in Jerusalem into an R&D campus for developing self-driving car technologies.
Another US$200 million will be invested in building an R&D centre, called IDC12, in the northern port city of Haifa next to its current development centre.
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