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Jun. 10, 2021 11:22 PM
Among the many arguments still ongoing between and within the eight parties which may, or may not, form a new Israeli government Sunday evening is one that not even the most avid followers of Israeli politics will have noticed.
One of the reasons for the dispute’s obscurity is that it’s happening inside the Labor party, hardly one of the major parties in the coalition. Another reason is that it’s not jeopardizing the government’s formation or stability.
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Leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 2, 2016. (Courtesy Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism)
Meeting with American Reform Jewish leaders, Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevitch on Thursday called for Israel to formally acknowledge liberal Jewish streams.
“In their meeting, Minister Yankelevitch called for increased recognition and investment by Israel in the Reform movement and other progressive Jewish streams,” a Diaspora Affairs Ministry statement said.
Yankelevitch, who is set to step down as minister soon if the potential “change government” is sworn in, met in Jerusalem with Union for Reform Judaism president Rabbi Rick Jacobs and other Reform leaders visiting Israel.
Hours after Yesh Atid chief Yair Lapid announced to President Reuven Rivlin he had managed to form a government, members of the "bloc for change" submitted their signatures Thursday morning to replace Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin, who is from the Likud. The government-in-waiting seeks to replace Levin with Yesh Atid