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Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz and MK Miki Haimovich meet and agree that she will not to run with the party in the March 2021 election.
“After meeting, the two concluded that Haimovich will not be included on the Blue and White slate during the upcoming elections. Gantz wished her well going forward,” the party leader’s office says in a statement.
Haimovich says in a Facebook post that she “agrees with the decision,” and that the “ideological gaps” between her and Gantz had become “unbridgeable.”
Miki Haimovich with Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/File)
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Israel is expected to green-light settlement construction ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
The Defense Ministry body responsible for authorizing settlement construction is expected to convene in the next two weeks for the first time since the November US election to advance plans for building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the report says.
The Civil Administration’s High Planning Subcommittee could meet as soon as Thursday, according to the report, which did not specify how many settlement houses were up for approval. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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Police have set up some 300 checkpoints across the country to enforce the national lockdown, which came into effect at 5 p.m. this evening.
The checkpoints, placed mainly at the entrance and exits of cities and towns, will be checking cars from 7 p.m. to midnight, Channel 12 news reports.
The channel says, however, that police have been instructed to “implement light enforcement” of certain aspects of the lockdown, with a focus on preventing gatherings and New Year parties. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. But it s full of beauty and meaning.
Electricity-generating solar panels. (Danny Shechtman)
Three lawmakers rushed Tuesday to burnish their environmental credentials hours before the Knesset was expected to disband.
The Knesset voted 49-47 overnight Monday-Tuesday against legislation that would have given the Likud and Blue and White parties extra time to reach agreement on a state budget. As a result of the failure to pass a budget, at midnight, the parliament will dissolve and new elections the fourth in two years will automatically be triggered.
Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel (Likud) announced interministerial agreement on the wording of an amendment to the Land Law to enable apartment blocks home to some 75 percent of Israelis to put solar panels on roofs under common ownership with greater ease.