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Centrist Blue & White said mulling election alliance with far-right Yamina Party leader Benny Gantz reportedly conditions move on ouster of Betzalel Smotrich; sources close to defense minister say he is working to prevent 'far-right government by Netanyahu, Sa'ar and Bennett' Yuval Karni, Amichai Attali | Published: 01.06.21 , 18:18 Representatives for Defense Minister Benny Gantz's centrist Blue & White party and Naftali Bennett's far-right Yamina reportedly met to discuss a possible alliance in the upcoming March elections. No party members were present at the meeting. Parties have unt...

Blue and White lawmaker Michael Biton at the Knesset on April 29, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90) Strategic Affairs Minister Michael Biton said Wednesday he was exploring shuttering his ministry and folding it into other government offices. Mere weeks after taking the post, Biton said he’d decided to adopt the position of the ministry’s director-general Ronen Manelis, who announced his resignation Wednesday, “to implement an orderly process that will lead to the merging of the ministry with other government ministries and executive bodies.” “I’m considering the various possibil...

Honors & Awards Sheri Greenawald Sheri Greenawald has been awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal in recognition of years of service. She made her debut with S.F. Opera in 1978 and went on to play a number of leading roles in the company. Since 2002, Greenawald, who is retiring this month, has been the S.F. Opera Center director and the S.F.-based Merola Opera program artistic director. “On Sunday, Nov. 11, 1978, a house debut was made by a young Marzelline in ‘Fidelio,’” Matthew Shilvock, the opera’s general director, said in a press release. “On that day a journey began that woul...

444 shares Illustrative: Members of the Ivgy family celebrate the Jewish Moroccan celebration of Mimouna, in the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, April 15, 2020. (Edi Israel/Flash90) Israelis of Moroccan descent celebrated Thursday’s decision by the North African kingdom to normalize relations with the Jewish state, calling it both “a natural agreement” and one they had long awaited. “I have tears in my eyes,” Dimona resident Avi Bohbot, 30, told the Ynet news site. His parents immigrated to Israel from Morocco and he currently organizes student trips to the country. “This...