Tag: Israeli Labor Party

"Our society is moving to the right and we had to draw our conclusions."

She established and led for 40 years the Council for a Beautiful Israel, the country's first environmental organization.

Barlev has no handle whatsoever on the raging Arab violence.

Benny Gantz, is the most bitter politician in the Knesset today.

"Whatever passes by this government passes – whatever doesn't, doesn't."

Netanyahu is the old fox that keeps outfoxing all his enemies.

As the Oslo process progressed and another interim agreement was signed the country was torn up by strife and rage.

Sheetrit's candidacy would conflict with Netanyahu's alleged plans to reward Minister Amir Peretz for jumping ship with his minuscule Labor party to the Likud coalition government.

The rightwing bloc gets 63 seats; the center-left-Arabs bloc only 50 seats; and Liberman gets 7 seats.

Was Wednesday's visit by Mike Pomepeo about supporting sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, or about making sure there won't be any action on sovereignty by this new government?

The forced merger of most of Israeli political parties fell apart once the anti-Netanyahu glue holding them together was dissolved.

Blue&White will lose if they try to force Amir Peretz to give up his cozy new chair as Knesset Speaker, and Peretz has his own long-term agenda.

Should the rightwing bloc end with 58 or even 59, the process of Netanyahu's removal by legislative means would begin.

The leftwing bloc now has 45 seats, compared with the rightwing bloc which still has 55 seats. Avigdor Liberman remains the kingmaker with his 7 mandates, and the Arab list has 13.

Liberman claimed that the Likud is investing serious efforts in persuading the leaders of the Joint Arab List not to cooperate with Blue&White.

There are no simple solutions to Israel's tight deadlock, other than Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman waking up from his 4-month drunk and saying, "I did what?"

Otzma Yehudit does not cross the vote threshold in any of the major polls.

The rightwing bloc without Liberman will probably get 60 seats, with the expectation that Netanyahu would be able to entice Orly Levy-Abekasis to join the coalition.

It appears that Amir Peretz and Orly Levi, with Labor's 5 seats offer the only solution to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pursuit of 61 seats

According to the law, the prime minister must invite the opposition leader, as needed but no less than once a month, to chat and update him on state affairs.

"He (Netanyahu) has nothing to do with the right, he promotes only two principles: his own ruling with God's grace and his cult of personality."

The only way out of this stalemate might be a solution that includes a Likud prime minister, but not necessarily Benjamin Netanyahu.

A united list that covers the entire camp to the left of Blue & White may be able to draw enough votes from the Arab sector to reach 15 Knesset seats on September 17.

One good thing from last night: the vote results were tabulated and announced in a matter of seconds.

Barak presents himself as the statesman who can lead the left to victory. That's a big difference between himself and the generals at Blue & White: he is unafraid to declare himself part of Israel's left.

There probably is going to be a recount of the soldiers' votes due to the unusual number of reported irregularities.

Smotrich vowed Tuesday night that Otzma Yehudit candidate Itamar Ben-Gvir would be in the Knesset, which could mean that Idit Salman is only a seat warmer.

10 PM Kan 11: Exit Poll: Likud 36, Gantz 37, Labor 8, Shas 7, UTJ 7, Hadash-Ta'al 6, Meretz 5, Kulanu 5, Right Wing Union 5, Israel Beiteinu 4.

I'd like to see a better reasoned and less combative platform – with no need to change or moderate the party's beliefs.

1,350 convention delegates are required to hold open primaries for new chairperson and the Knesset list.