Tag: Jewish Home

Local elections in Israel are rarely a pretty sight, but the one Beit Shemesh Tuesday night takes this year’s trophy. False IDs and trashing ballots were the tip of the iceberg. By the way, Shas won.

Jewish Home probably siphoned off 2 seats from Lapid and 1 from Shas, to grow to 15 seats in this survey.

“Peace talks” resumed on condition of Israel’s freeing 104 terrorists, one batch at a time as a test of PA “peace.” Abbas did not keep his end of the deal, but you can count on Israel to let him off the hook.

When we wrote two months ago here that Obama’s reincarnated “peace process” was doomed from the start, we stated the ugly truth: Terrorists would drive in the first nail. Yet, the PA blames Israel.

“You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Lapid soared to political stardom on his “middle class” soap box, which turned out to be full of hogwash. His wealth now is estimated at $6 million.

Israel's media will now be repeating this mantra tirelessly, until the average Israeli will start whispering it in his sleep: "Get rid of Jewish Home, get lasting peace in 9 months."

As far as the half million Israelis living in Judea and Samaria—most of whom are Jewish Home voters—the referendum bill leaves them in the cold.

It took Netanyahu several hours to win a respectable majority in the Cabinet to capitulate to Abbas' demand and approve the release of 104 terrorists in order to allow the renewal of direct talks in Washington on Tuesday.

The Jewish Home (HaBayit HaYehudi) party will be meeting Sunday afternoon to officially (and finally) announce their support for Rav Stav as Chief Ashkenazi...

The decision to play this kind of hardball came from Lapid.

At stake are hundreds of thousands of acres in the Negev, claimed by Bedouin squatters.

Yesh Atid opposes both the Jewish Home candidate and the tricky legislation his appointment would require.

Will Bibi play into the hands of the unholy trinity of Obama-Kerry-Abbas?

An annual quota of approximately 7,000 Haredim would be paid while learning in yeshiva for three years before serving in the IDF or doing...

"It's time for new, creative concepts to resolve the conflict in the Middle East."

Benjamin Netanyahu made his bed when he put pragmatic secular politics over Jewish values.

Believe it or not, but, after 65 years, Israel still does not have a constitution fully realizing its being a Jewish state.

The new government will be much smaller than the last one.

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu blames MK Aryeh Deri for sawing mistrust among the Orthodox parties.

"The state of Israel, all of us, are obligated to support the entire nation of Israel."

A similar statement was attributed to Bibi himself during his chat with Yair Lapid.

No coalition? No ticket on Air Force One. Israel television says that if Netanyahu cannot form a government by the final March 16 deadline, Obama will tear up his March 20 ticket.

This is Torah. This is its rightful place in all our lives, both private and public.

Now, the NRP is getting nervous. They should have looked more carefully before signing the Ketuba, marriage contract with Bennett.

“Old guard” MK Slomiansky surprised the Jewish Home party by being voted number two MK in party primaries. Bennett was suspicious, and a detective’s work may explain how he did it. Just buy votes.

44% said they prefer their party to compromise on principles to join Netanyahu's coalition.

Netanyahu wheels and deals, Livni sacrifices herself on the altar of a Cabinet post, Shas plays cute and the public is fed up. A new poll shows that if elections were held today, Lapid would win.

Talks on a new government coalition have turned into spin after spin and bluff after bluff, with “everyone on first” and no one at...

Who's to blame for there being no religious bloc in the negotiations with the Likud?

The criticism focused on the fact that Livni will be given a leading role in negotiations with the Palestinians, by the Likud said the Prime Minister will lead the negotiating team.