Tag: Yair Lapid

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is bound to hear an earful about the danger in removing the IRGC from the terrorist list.

For the year and a half since the signing of the Abrahamic Accords, Israel has served as a kind of mediator between Abu Dhabi and Washington.

Despite his three consecutive failures to put together a coalition government, Netanyahu is still way ahead of everyone else.

In lieu of a comment on the shameful, anti-Israel speech of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before the Knesset, Bennett stressed what Israel has been best at.

Overnight Monday, Zelensky reversed himself on Telegram, saying he "Appreciates Prime Minister Bennett's efforts."

"The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is a terrorist organization that has murdered thousands of people, including Americans. We refuse to believe that the United States would remove its designation as a terrorist organization."

In May 2019, the Iranian government declared the United States Central Command, whose area of responsibility includes the Middle East, a terrorist organization.

Will the Lapid-Bennett government capitulate to Western pressure to oust Jewish citizens?

In the end, alas, no one will remember those high-minded declarations, only Shaked’s action of opening up the floodgates.

It was probably the most straightforward condemnation by an Israeli senior official of the Russian invasion.

Lapid will visit the Siret border crossing between Romania and Ukraine and will meet with Ministry of Foreign Affairs personnel who have been working to rescue Israelis and Jews from Ukraine.

OK, you’ll admit someone over at the AG’s office has a fantastic sense of humor.

"I'm afraid that by Saturday night, when the policy goes into effect, the quota will be full and no one will be admitted.”

Tom Nides was trying his best to get Israel deeper in trouble with its neighbor to the north, Vladimir Putin.

Israel has established an inter-ministry team that will examine the effects and consequences of the sanctions on Russia on the Israeli economy and policy.

Every normal country in the West, most notably the United States, expected Israel to explicitly condemn Russia.

Israel’s highest priority is dealing with its neighbor to the north, Syria, which is protected by Israel's neighbor to the north – Russia.

Rinawie Zoabi is a member of the left-wing Meretz party and is considered a political headache for the coalition.

“Substantively, it’s not that big an issue. We’re not talking about a big defensive settlement, but in politics, symbols often are more important than substance,” said Yechiel Leiter, senior fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum.

On paper, a Sa'ar-Bennett-Liberman slate currently possesses 20 seats and as such stands to outflank Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid for second place, behind the Likud.

If you're Jewish, you'll always find it difficult to hear a German politician talk about a "final phase."

On his last day in office, January 31, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit approved Evyatar's outline.

Smotrich is not wrong on the facts, and then some.

"Unfortunately, in recent days we have witnessed the well-oiled machine operated by anonymous elements around the clock, inventing fake news."

Several United Torah Judaism MKs have been critical recently of their party's chairman, MK Moshe Gafni, for his vehement antagonism regarding Bennett.

With Barkat at the helm, things look amazing for the right-wing bloc.

The Citizenship Law could serve as the bridge for future peace among the four right-wing Zionist parties in and out of the coalition.

This would be the second commission of inquiry investigating Case 3000.

As of 2020, the CBS classified 415,147 Israelis as “other.” 8.6% of them declared themselves as "Christian."

On occasion, the opposition media cry Wolf at the sight of a Schnauser.