Tag: Meretz

Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer, picked by Meretz for a committee, signed a pro-BDS letter from leftist Israelis to Ben & Jerry's.

It should be interesting to watch the Knesset becoming divided not along the traditional coalition vs. opposition divider, but as sharks vs. guppies.

Lieberman replied in a jovial tone: "The Haredim together with Bibi will be taken on the same wheelbarrow to a good landfill."

Frej explained that Shaked's remarks about upgrading the status of 1,600 Palestinians concerned only the six months of the extended temporary order.

Opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu told opposition allies: "We will vote against the Citizenship Law and we will not cooperate."

Yamina can't apply the Norwegian Law as long as there are Yamina list members who oppose this coalition.

In protest of MK Tamar Zandberg's bill that would outlaw part of Chabad's outreach, protesters put on Tefillin near Zandberg's home.

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

"We haven't finished dealing with violence, but we have to deal with the deep roots of the problem."

MK Nitzan Horowitz’s remark “justifying the political and anti-Semitic action of the court at The Hague and its persecution of IDF soldiers is a disgrace to the Israeli Knesset,” says Yamina Party’s Ayelet Shaked.

3000 hates crimes by PA Arabs against Jews were recorded by the IDF.

Blue&White said they would not cooperate with efforts on the part of their former partners, Yesh Atid, to humiliate them every week with the submarine thing.

On the eve of Tisha B'Av this is actually good news, as it fits the verse (Isaiah 49:17): "Swiftly your children are coming; Those who ravaged and ruined you shall leave you."

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

The rotation-enabling amendments, which had been decided in the Likud–Blue&White negotiations, may not hold water legally.

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

Edelstein's resignation thwarted the possibility of holding a vote for a new Speaker until Monday.

Levy-Abekasis's announcement came after reports that Gantz planned to form his minority government within two weeks.

Established in 2006, Im Tirtzu's stated mission is to renew "Zionist discourse, Zionist thinking and Zionist ideology to ensure the future of the Jewish nation and the State of Israel."

LGBT citizens generally have limited or highly restrictive rights in most parts of the Middle East, and are targets of violence in others.

Last week, Yamina was struggling to keep 7 seats in the polls, and now it finally succeeded in squeezing an eighth mandate from Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit's voters.

Should Blue&White build up a considerable gap ahead of the Likud, this would likely result in the Haredim and Yamina deserting Netanyahu.

Despite Netanyahu's media blitz, in Washington, Moscow, and Africa, the needle refuses to move.

Odeh also said his list would not support "any government that would have [Israel Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor] Liberman in it.

Less than half of the respondents, 46%, believed there's great urgency in annexing territories even before the elections.

Benny Gantz would have no choice but to lean on the Joint Arab List in the Knesset, if he wants to form and maintain a majority government.

The major player in the next 28 days, other than Gantz, is Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman, who can make or break a Gantz government.

If the campaign succeeds in luring in Arab votes at the expense of the Joint Arab List, the party expects to receive about two complete mandates from Arab voters.

Meretz receives only four seats out of the first 11 slots of the Democratic Camp, despite the fact that Meretz is the main party and the supposed leader of the new union.

The accusations that tweaking the high court's power to intervene in the political process means the demise of Israel's democracy is clearly an exaggeration.