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0 shares Supporters of the Socialist Party wave flags during a rally of their party in Tirana, Albania, April 22, 2021. (AP) For nearly a year, one of the most outspoken defenders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has maintained near-total radio silence. On May 24, 2020, Jonatan Urich, a Likud spokesman, close adviser to the premier and chum of Netanyahu’s bluntly outspoken son Yair, fired off four tweets in support of the prime minister, who was making history that day as the first sitting head of the government in the country’s history to go on trial. Then he stopped tweeting, ...

Economy Minister Amir Peretz in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Former Labor party leader Amir Peretz announced Tuesday that he would be quitting the center-left faction in order to continue serving as minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. The move came after MK Merav Michaeli won the party’s leadership primaries on Sunday and announced Monday that Labor would be leaving the coalition immediately, forcing Peretz and Welfare Minister Itzik Shmuli to choose between their government posts and membership in the party. Peretz chose the former, leaving ...

Follow Dec. 31, 2020 Meretz no longer has the right to exist as an independent political entity. But its worldview, values and ideology definitely do, more importantly than ever given Israel’s downward slide towards becoming a fragile democracy. Meretz has been shrinking for years, facing extinction. What’s required now is the establishment of a new and wide-embracing entity, a social democratic party based on its underpinnings. Meretz was established as an amalgamated party of left-wing Zionist bodies, including Shulamit Aloni’s Ratz party, Mapam, led by Yair Tzaban and Shinui, led by ...