Tag: Yesh Atid

In previous election campaigns, Netanyahu was able to put his opponents in the boxes that were most convenient to him. This time it's not catching on.

It is important to note that almost all the candidates emphasize the need for unity among the people and promise to form a government for all.

"The story of menorahs in every intersection on Chanukah and Chabad houses around the world is over."

Education Minister Yoav Galant (Likud) had been summoned by 25 MKs to discuss the “state of the education system in Israel."

According to the polls, the next Knesset will have a larger presence of rightwing parties that oppose legalization.

If no government budget is passed early next week, then on Tuesday at midnight, the Knesset will automatically dissolve and Israel will go to a fourth election campaign in less than two years.

Liberman offered a strategic platform which he believes all four parties can agree on – which remains to be seen.

The target election date is March 23, 2021, which falls on a Tuesday, followed by the Passover Seder Saturday night.

The decision to hold the deliberations on the bill in the House Committee passed by a vote of 10-0, with one abstention.

Other citizens who perform National-Civil Service, including more than 5,000 Arabs, will not be eligible for the grant.

The rightwing bloc receives 66 seats altogether, with Shas winning 8 seats (it has 9 in the real Knesset) and UTJ 7 (same as now).

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.

It is interesting to note that the peace agreement with the Gulf states that has grabbed many headlines over the past month is not beneficial in the least to the prime minister’s popularity.

"The Likud must demand the dismissal of MK Haimovich from her position as chairman of the Interior Committee immediately," MK Karhi demanded.

Israelis, please stay home, stop spreading the virus, how difficult is this to understand?

And yet, despite the overwhelming dissatisfaction with his job performance, 31% of those surveyed believe that Netanyahu is best qualified to serve as prime minister.

Netanyahu and Bennett can form a 51-seat coalition bloc, to which they can add whomever they desire, at a bargain basement price.

These dramatic results most likely stem from the drift in the public's view of Benjamin Netanyahu.

The survey also shows that the Joint Arab List is getting stronger, going from 15 to 16 seats.

"I do not plan to vote for or support raising the fine to NIS 500. It's excessive," the Knesset committee chairman said.

MK Moshe Ya'alon (Yesh Atid-Telem) echoed the demand for a State Comptroller examination into the affair, and also called for the establishment of a state commission of inquiry.

The Bennett-Liberman alliance will bombard the Likud with rightwing bills that will embarrass Netanyahu and set him up for failure in the settlements come next election.

“We are not changing the system of government in Israel."

Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid suffered a cut in its mandates from 14 to 11.

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

A solution needs to be found also for those who observe the upsherin haircutting ceremony in Meron.

It's a nasty bit of anti-democratic legislation which presumes the PM to be guilty until proven innocent, inflicting on them the most severe political outcome of the case against them even before the court had held its first session.

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

Bibi understood, with the mystical foresight of a hunter, that Gantz did not have it in him, Gantz did not have the killer's instinct, the total dedication, the unbound desire.

Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), Gantz's partner strongly opposes the move.