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Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 1:23 PM Get email notification for articles from Jonathan Lis Follow Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 1:23 PM Shas party leader Arye Dery is seeking to pass legislation that would resolve Israel’s electoral stalemate through the direct election of the prime minister. Shas Knesset member Michael Malkieli introduced the bill on Monday that would provide for such a direct election.  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his blessing several days ago to the effort at a meeting with Dery, the interiior minister, sources involved in the initiative said. However, a senior polit...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The anti-Netanyahu bloc’s proposal, which passed with 60 votes in favor and 51 against, would give parties two seats on the panel for every six Knesset seats. Consequently, that bloc would get 16 seats and Netanyahu’s bloc only 14, while Naftali Bennett's Yamina would get two seats and Abbas Mansour's United Arab List one. This would give Yamina considerable power to decide the outcome of close votes. "I thank my partners," Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid wrote on Twitter after the vote. "The victory in the vote on the arrangements ...

Israel is trapped amid the substantive diplomatic moves to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal and Iran's interest of clinching a deal before its presidential election in June

Get email notification for articles from Jonathan Lis Follow Apr. 18, 2021 10:36 PM Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party is leaning toward supporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents in Monday’s vote on the composition of the Knesset’s arrangements committee. The committee is in charge of setting the Knesset’s agenda and dealing with legislation during the interim period between an election and the formation of a new government. Thus it will likely consider both opposition bills to undermine Netanyahu and bills the prime minister seeks to promote. LISTEN: Inside Walla - What...

Get email notification for articles from Ben Samuels Follow Apr. 18, 2021 11:03 PM WASHINGTON – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the J Street 2021 National Conference on Sunday that moving away from a two-state solution would lead to a "de facto apartheid one-state solution," calling this something neither the Palestinians nor the world would accept. "We are ready to resume peace negotiations with our Israeli counterpart on the basis of international legitimacy, resolutions and signed agreements and under the auspices of the International Quartet," Abbas said. Abbas told J Street...