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4 shares Yesh Atid, with MK Orna Barbivai at left, presents its candidates' list for the March 23, 2021 election to the Central Elections Committee, in the Knesset, February 3, 2021 (GPO) Registration opened Wednesday for parties to submit their lists of candidates in the upcoming Knesset elections, with several major parties unveiling their slates and several small parties quitting the race. The slates can be handed to the Central Elections Committee until Thursday at midnight, meaning that parties have just one day left to finalize potential mergers, or to announce they aren’t runni...

Exit polls released Tuesday night following Israel’s 2021 elections showed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud remains the largest party,... Michael Biton, deputy minister for civilian and social affairs in the Defense Ministry, hosted a recent meeting attended by ministry officials, SLA representatives and Maj. Gen. Itai Veruv, who heads the IDF’s military colleges. In the meeting, it was agreed that, in accordance with a decision by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Biton, a memorial would be erected with 2.4 million shekels (around $730,000) of Defense Ministry and ...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio “No politically irresponsible proposal will be on the agenda during the cabinet meeting, especially in such a sensitive time,” Gantz said, referring to Israel’s problems in handling the coronavirus crisis. Netanayahu and Gantz’s unity cabinet is currently a caretaker government in the run-up to the early election set for March 23. Originally, the cabinet Tuesday was only due to discuss issues relating to the coronavirus, so Netanyahu surprised Gantz with the West Bank move. The proposal would turn the outposts of Avigail, Asael ...

Jan. 18, 2021 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened Sunday’s cabinet meeting with an emotional statement about an issue that wasn’t on the agenda provided to ministers over the weekend. “We’re currently holding a discussion with the Defense Ministry about young settlements,” he said. “This is a humanitarian issue – people who have no electricity or water. I very much hope we’ll be able to reach an agreement in the next day or two, because we have to solve this. There’s no justification for this, and it causes unnecessary suffering.” Fundamentalist Israel is no longer Je...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, “Young Settlement” is a cover name used to obscure the settler movement’s construction of ten illegal outposts a year. These masters of the land understand, without a doubt, that there is no problem in breaking the law, and the results of this understanding are evident in their demonstr...