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Kulanu's vagaries in the coming weeks should be viewed in the context of a party on its way to extinction attempting to soar once more by flapping its arms with great vigor.

On Friday morning, a Kulanu politician, Environment Minister Avi Gabbay, announced his resignation on account of the Lieberman appointment.

We at the Jewish Press online came up with a list of issues we will be following up during the Lieberman administration at the Defense Ministry, and the reader is invited to add more items.

Netanyahu may have been clever or lucky, but Lieberman was, without a doubt, brilliant.

Rather than risk the "peace" with our "peace partners," Mofaz, then chief of staff, observed as the soldier bled to death-and did nothing!

PA Chairman Abbas assured the Norwegian FM that it's not Norway's money that is being used to pay the jailed terrorists.

"It's important that the Justice Minister have political power and political ability."

Sweden’s foreign minister, Margot Wallström—remember her?—said the comments were “terrible.”

The following is the list of Likud ministerial positions...

The coalition sharks are smelling blood - not from Israel's enemies, but rather from PM Netanyahu.

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced Tuesday morning to serve six years in prison.

The EU Commission's progress report deals with a polarized society and a government that takes repressive measures against citizens who assert their democratic rights.

An Iranian news agency accuses Obama of being ordered around by Netanyahu.

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."

Egyptian foreign minister Nabil Fahmy is visiting Ramallah on Monday to discuss bilateral relations between Egypt and the Palestinian Authority with Chairman Mahmoud Abbas,...

"This is not an instantaneous plan, it's a plan for a generation."

Jordanian Prime Minister Abdalla Ensour and his cabinet approved a new plan to trade water with Israel.  In a new Red Sea desalination project...

The Russians say a homemade rocket carrying chemical substances was launched by the opposition.

Thirty-eight Sejm members representing Tusk’s ruling Civic Platform party joined with the opposition in voting to outlaw ritual slaughter.

Like Erekat, Indyk has been a major player in the peace industry since the early 1990s, and he also can point to zero achievements in bringing peace and prosperity to our region.

The President and the Prime Minister discussed the danger of extremists in Syria and the repression of extremists in Egypt.

The capitulation on the Temple Mount leads to the construction halt in Jerusalem.

The first group of Palestinian prisoners with Jewish blood on their hands will be released next week.

As Netanyahu appears to be making excessive and immoral concessions to the Palestinian Authority, Danon has emerged as a leading dissident ready to challenge his prime minister

Last night, the "only democracy in the Middle East" became a lot less democracy and a lot more Middle East.

Israel's National Archives has released a photograph of Golda Meir's chicken soup recipe.

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An initiative of some members of the Jerusalem Likud branch could help keep soon-to-be-former MK Dan Meridor gainfully employed: The Begin Heritage Group, led...

At a dramatic press conference in Tel Aviv on Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced his resignation from politics. Barak said he would remain in his post until the establishment of the next government, following the January 22 elections.

The relatively new religious leaders on the Likud roster owe some of their status to Moshe Feiglin's relentless efforts to make the party more traditionally Jewish.