Tag: Eli Yishai

Last spring, MK Ben-Gvir was not a commentator on the news – he was the news.

Shaked's casual text was Shaked's rebuttal to Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, whose sweet manner and French accent often makes his listeners forget that he represents an extreme-Haredi line with questionable notions regarding Israeli society.

It's rewarding to see that MK Smotrich is adept at playing "I'm rubber you're glue."

Netanyahu is trying to avoid an election outcome in which the Likud increases it mandates while losing its potential right-wing partners to the threshold.

Here's another doozie: Both Avigdor Liberman and his nemesis Ahmad Tibi get only 3 seats and walk into the setting sun, probably not hand in hand.

The relatively low reserved spot on the Likud's list means that the PM is not planning to attract a new, big name to his party's Knesset delegation.

On the question of who should lead the New Right party, 57% said they wanted Ayelet Shaked, compared with 43% who chose Naftali Bennett.

So far, the only significant effect of the 3.75% threshold has been the forced unification of four Arab parties as the Joint Arab List.

Bennett and Shaked's breakaway party will either strengthen Israel's right, or completely destroy it in the upcoming elections...

Habayit Hayehudi headed by Naftali Bennett receives 11 seats in the new poll, compared to 8 in the current Knesset.

The Interior Minister is opposed to lowering the threshold, fearing that this would let his rival, Eli Yishai, enter the Knesset.

The reported cost of each luxury 1,335 sq. ft., 5-room apartment, will be only one million shekel – $276,000.

The likelihood of the illustrious Sephardi party disappearing from Israel's political map altogether over the prolonged strife between the two leaders, Deri and Yishai, is alarming to the Sephardi religious establishment.

Lowering the threshold would thus could give the rightwing block as many as 70 seats in the next Knesset—it now hovers around 65, and clip one or two Arab seats that would travel back to the Zionist leftwing parties.

The Joint Arab List would retain its power with 13 seats, followed by Habayit Hayehudi which would rise from 8 to 12 seats.

At the end of last year, Yaffa Deri's Mifalot Simcha applied for assistance to the tune of $160,000 from the Interior Ministry which is headed by Aryeh Deri.

With nearly a dozen viable parties, the president choosing the one who pulls together the pieces, Israeli elections are complicated.

The "ultra right wing" Yachad party has women working on policy issues of economic importance to women.

The definition of elections is voting for the candidate you least dislike.

The small right-wing parties will hurt their ideological allies and voters, unless they get past their egos and ideological perfectionism and help their side for a change.

The inclusion of Hager may help Yishai's party get enough voters to be elected to the Knesset.

Deri ends his slaps-shtick and accepts a rabbi's command to humbly return to lead the baa-baa sheep.

Voters apparently like the Likud’s more centrist list of candidates. Lieberman hurt by bribe scandal. Shas survives.

Shas's Council of Sages have given their response to Aryeh Deri's letter of resignation...

The video was a political nuke, and Deri is betting the farm.

No one knows who leaked the video of Rav Ovadia, but it's a bombshell, and there might be more on the way.

The results of the poll may cause people to start changing their minds.

25-year-old man threatened former Shas party head with violence.

And that puts pressure on Aryeh Deri...

Moshe Kahlon courts Michael Oren but rejects Rami Levi. Shas and Jewish Home divorces not yet final.