Tag: Avigdor Liberman

"He is planning the assault phase on the target for the beginning of next week."

Yair Lapid, Israel's playboy politician has turned out to be a hard worker, undeterred by temporary failures.

One factor pushing for the rapid closure of the agreements on the next government may be the powerful attacks on Bennett and Shaked by the Religious Zionist Party.

The relatives of victims of terrorism stated that they would fight a government that would receive outside support from Ra'am or the Joint Arab List.

It appears that Netanyahu's battle is no longer to form a government but to thwart the transfer of the mandate to Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid.

Netanyahu simply informed Gantz: "You can oppose it as much as you want, we're voting – let's go ahead."

Israel is heading to the only positive, dare I say inevitable outcome.

Matan Peleg, CEO of Im Tirtzu that initiated the move, said that the letter was a wake-up call to the heads of the Zionist parties.

United Torah Judaism chairman Moshe Gafni on Sunday attacked the chairman of Religious Zionism Bezalel Smotrich in the Haredi newspaper Yated Ne'eman.

According to some media outlets in Israel, the Lapid camp is ready to offer Bennett a rotation deal, according to which he would serve as prime minister for the first year.

She is expected to be sentenced to a very long prison term.

Netanyahu used his final big interview to the National Religious press for an unrestrained trashing of the very people he hopes to lure into his next government.

This would be a good opportunity for Bennett and Sa'ar to forge a brotherly pact worth between 18 and 20 mandates.

The problem has to do with a gap of half a percent or one percent that could raise or lower several parties above and below the threshold – which is 3.25% of the overall vote.

In westerns, it's known as a Mexican standoff, and by the end of the scene, all three gunmen lie dead in the empty street to the sound of a weepy melody.

Yaalon did not endorse anyone, despite the fact that an endorsement from him could boost any of the group of politicians united under the banner of “anyone but Bibi.”

Netanyahu has no path to 61 mandates and a majority recommendation to the president.

Liberman offered a strategic platform which he believes all four parties can agree on – which remains to be seen.

The rightwing bloc receives 66 seats altogether, with Shas winning 8 seats (it has 9 in the real Knesset) and UTJ 7 (same as now).

Likud's decline is exploited by Yamina, which gets 21 seats while – lest we forget – it currently holds only 5 Knesset seats.

"I think Bennett can lead the country and be an excellent prime minister, but we are not forming coalitions yet."

The State Department urged Azerbaijan to avoid using the pandemic to silence “civil society advocacy, opposition voices, or public discussion.”

The cabinet meeting to be held on Thursday will decide whether Israel will enter a lockdown during the Tishrei high holidays.

If anyone in Israeli politics can shoot himself in the foot inside his own tent, it is the heirs of the NRP on the right.

Bennett harshly criticizes the former director general of the Health Ministry, Moshe Bar-Siman Tov, and the head of the public health services department, Professor Michal Sadecki – both no longer in their posts.

These dramatic results most likely stem from the drift in the public's view of Benjamin Netanyahu.

The survey also shows that the Joint Arab List is getting stronger, going from 15 to 16 seats.

"We knew in advance that this man can finagle all of us. He invented a cosmic trick – how to swindle everyone all the time."

Health Minister Yuli Ederlstein (Likud) said in response to the ruling that "the High Court has lost it."

As soon as the 61-MKs' recommendation is sent to the president, there will be a stampede of all the many parties, interest groups and NGOs to the High Court of Justice.