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It’s a pattern too consistent to be coincidence: A dramatic crisis opens the political window for change, and Israeli governments find the courage to step through it
Haviv Rettig Gur is The Times of Israel's senior analyst. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, center wearing black mask, during a cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on July 25, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool) For nearly forty years, an Israeli state budget has always come into the world in two parts. One half of the budget is a bill with all the numbers: endless columns of projected income vs. expenditures, drilled down to each agency and program. The other half is known only by the clumsy name Hok Hahesderim, or the “Arrangements Law.” This bill runs to a few hundred pages...
Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, July 21 Xinhua 22 Jul 2021, 08:05 GMT+10 ISTANBUL -- Turkey is inoculating citizens against COVID-19 without intermission during the Eid al-Adha holiday, local media reported Wednesday. According to the state-run Anadolu agency, mobile healthcare vaccination teams have been deployed to several locations across the country to provide services to holidaymakers. (Turkey-Vaccination-COVID19) ---- JERUSALEM -- Israel has announced an agriculture reform plan to reduce prices of fruits, vegetables, eggs and other products, the Israeli Ministry of Finan...
Naftali Bennett’s Knesset address Naftali Bennett’s Knesset address Israel’s incoming prime minister expresses his thanks to those who came before him and lays out his plan for the future. Israeli Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett at the swearing in of the new Israeli government, at the Knesset, June 13, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90. Spread the word. (June 14, 2021 / JNS) H.E. President Reuven Rivlin; President-elect Isaac Herzog; Mr. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; President of the Supreme Court, Justice Esther Hayut; Speaker of the Knesset Yariv Levin; my partner...
Right-wing lawmaker Eli Avidar plans to vote independently after new government is confirmed, dissatisfied that he wasn't given ministerial portfolio