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Instead of the committee, Minister Shaked will empower the Knesset to vet supreme court candidates in public hearings, much the way this is done in the US Senate.

During the operation, one of the truck drivers tried to attack the activists with a knife.

Deutsch leads the city council's 14-member Jewish Caucus, and chairs the council’s Veterans Committee.

Recently appointed conservative justice Alex Stein supported the promotion of Ben-Gvir, while Justices Noam Solberg and Menachem Mazuz objected.

Media reports have suggested in recent weeks that the main reason Netanyahu is not assembling his cabinet has to do with Bennett's vehement attacks on the PM/DM's security policy.

Bolsonaro praised President Donald Trump on his Israel policy, and Bolsonaro's son said Brazil should relocate Brazil's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

It's refreshing to see the aloof, cryptic former chief of staff finally splashing in the mud among all the other wrestlers.

Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) reintroduced the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which would require the Department of Education to adopt the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism in evaluating incidents on college campuses.

In addition to the two major lists fighting for the Arab vote, Hadash-Ta'al and Ra'am-Balad, a number of new parties are also vying for the Arab vote, which are not expected to approach the 3.25% vote threshold.

Anti-Israel activist Abbas Hamideh, an associate of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) has tweeted the councilman's home address and invited other anti-Israel activists to protest there.

When asked who is more suited to serve as prime minister, 51% of respondents answered that Netanyahu is more appropriate than Ganz, who won only 36%. 13% did not know.

Some 5,000 Israelis living abroad are eligible to vote.

“With regard to Gaza, there is something that can be done. I don’t accept this lack of an answer. In Gaza, it is possible to uproot Hamas."

One thing is certain, with a shrinking base of only 42 left-leaning seats and only 12 Arabs, Gantz is simply too far from forming a blocking bloc to keep Netanyahu from forming a coalition government.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was joined initially by her congressional allies on other issues, among them vile attacks on Israel and on Jews, Deb Haaland, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Antonio Delgado – all Democrats.

Incidentally, the first legislation Netanyahu will get through the next Knesset will likely be the "French law" shielding a serving prime minister from indictments.

Two commemorations of events in the short history of the Jewish-Arab conflict will take place this week, and either one could start a war.

The source thus created a never-before used (at least not in diplomatic circles) comparison between the Golan Heights and Judea and Samaria, which were also captured in the Six-Day War.

The lesson Netanyahu was trying to teach Syrian president Bashar al-Assad may as well have also been directed at the Hamas Terroracracy

Vice President Mike Pence blasted Democratic freshmen in the House of Representatives on Monday, in addition to certain candidates on the 2020 presidential campaign trail, for the former using “rank anti-Semitic language” and the latter for avoiding the AIPAC annual policy conference in Washington.

He said he would decide on his preference only after he compares and examines which coalition would better advance his platform.

In response to a petition by the Movement for Quality Government, the AG clarified: "I was not exposed to secret data regarding the approval for the submarines sale to Egypt."

Education and Diaspora Minister Naftali Bennett appealed to the Polish authorities to ban Irving's entry on a planned nine-day trip around Poland in September.

You can use the veil of "national security" to hide things from the press, but to hide them from the very stewards of national security?

"Senator Gillibrand was not planning to speak at the policy conference and will not be attending."

The one blessing Rabbi Gantz had to offer General Gantz was: "May God help him to repent and not be crazy anymore."

Orly Levy-Abekasis gets four seats, right-wing bloc continues to lead - 62 vs. 58; Likud stuck at 26 seats, 33% support banning Ben-Ari; 49% forgive Gantz's phone hacking fiasco.

This might be a good place to note that Naftali Bennett is Israel's Minister for Diaspora Affairs. We think AIPAC's got a whole lot of Diaspora under its belt.

Hey, maybe they could send Shin Bet agents to rob tourists' of their cash, watches and jewelry, that could bring down that deficit real good.

Netanyahu goes to a Purim party, costumed as... himself.