Israel’s Ra’am Party splits from Joint Arab List
Israel’s Ra’am Party splits from Joint Arab List
Ahead of the March 23 elections, the Joint List will comprise the Balad, Ta’al and Hadash parties with polls predicting that Ra’am won’t make it into the Knesset if it runs independently.
Mansour Abbas of the Ra am-Balad Party holds a press conference after a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the President s Residence in Jerusalem on April 16, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
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Channel 12 News reported.
The Joint Arab List will now comprise the Balad, Ta’al and Hadash parties.
Israeli Minister Itzik Shmuli announces exit from politics
Israeli Minister Itzik Shmuli announces exit from politics
Citing his “mistake” in joining Netanyahu’s government, the former Labor Party Knesset member says he is “taking a break from politics.”
Labor, Social Welfare and Social Services Minister Itzik Shmuli speaks at an event in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020. Photo by Shlomi Cohen/Flash90.
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(February 3, 2021 / JNS) Israeli Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services Minister Itzik Shmuli announced his resignation on Wednesday, citing his “mistake” in joining the unity government led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In a Facebook post, the former Labor Knesset member said that is going to “take a break from politics” to consider his future path.
Benjamin (Bibi) NetanyahuMORE has urged world leaders not to trust Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani. In Netanyahu’s telling, Rouhani is a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” whose diplomatic engagement with the West is nothing more than a clever ruse. Netanyahu, apparently, sees no difference between pragmatic Iranian officials such as Rouhani and the conservative hardliners who lead chants of “Death to America.”
But Israeli leaders were not always so pessimistic or narrow-minded about Rouhani. In a remarkable – and little known – historical twist, the Israeli government once sought to empower a faction of moderate Iranian officials led by Rouhani. In fact, Israel’s insistence on U.S. support for the Rouhani-led group sparked the worst political scandal of Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
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Fifteen years ago, I spent a year studying in Israel. Gershom Sizomu was my
chavruta my study partner. We laughed together, we ate together, we danced together, we cried together, we mourned together. We became rabbis together.
Gershom was enrolled at a rabbinical seminary in Los Angeles, and I in New York City, but Jerusalem brought us together. Our initial divide was far greater than higher education on parallel coasts of the United States. I was a 20-something from New Jersey. Gershom was already a leader of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda a homegrown, century-old African Jewish community with a volatile history of persecution and rejection. But Gershom’s desire to enhance his studies and bring back deeper Jewish learning to his community brought him to our shared table of discourse at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in the Neve Granot neighborhood of Jerusalem.
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