Tag: Yesh Atid

“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.

Bayit Yehudi announced that NIS 65 million of government funding earmarked for Hesder and Haredi Yeshivas will be transferred before Rosh Hashanah. The money was...

The Yesh Atid party, chaired by Yair Lapid, continues to lose popularity in the latest poll, with Meretz picking up the pieces and Likud,...

"We believe that every person in Israel must have their fundamental rights met..." Not applicable to terror victims and their families' fundamental right to justice.

A new Knesset Channel shows Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid in a severe meltdown in popularity, removing any doubts of the political law...

Is Bibi now Sharon Number Two? Sharon turned on backers and expelled Jews from Gaza. Bibi frees terrorists and chases surrender. A new poll shows his star soaring and Lapid’s dropping. Bibi the “peacenik?”

Bennett lost the battle for Chief Rabbis but he may have won the war. A Knesset Channel poll shows Jewish Home party as the second largest, only three seats behind the Likud and three ahead of Lapid.

"It will prevent selling out in deals whole swaths of our homeland."

There's no better explanation a student can receive as to why he lives in Israel, than a visit to Hebron. Unfortunately, the new Education Minister does not think so.

There are Haredim and there are Haredim. Some fight for IDF. Others fight against the state and, as on Tuesday, attack Haredi soldiers. Police rescued him and patrolled the streets of Mea Shearim.

MK Yaakov Litzman (UTJ) responded strongly to Health Minister Yael German's (Yesh Atid) proposed legislation that would permit the state to automatically harvest organs...

Deputy Minister of Finance Mickey Levy (Yesh Atid) said at a Tel Aviv conference that "The Benefits Party is over". "Entire populations do not take...

In reality, Lipman and his ilk have learned nothing from the destruction of Gush Katif.

Reb Dov, I am perplexed. How did you move so far away so rapidly?

If Shas does agree to allow a secular core curriculum in their schools, that will put Ashkenazi Haredi leaders between a rock and a hard place.

What I do not understand is the harshness of his condemnation.

For Lapid to successfully challenge Netanyahu, he will need to find the right time for a strategic exit from the government.

Hitler wanted to exterminate Jews. Lapid only wants to exterminate the Haredi habit of not to work or serve in the IDF. That is enough for a Haredi columnist to compare Lapid’s and Hitler’s speeches.

Meanwhile, a mini coalition crisis has been pitting Yesh Atid members of the Perry Committee against Likud representatives.

In the spirit of 'elu v’elu' we should just agree to disagree and respect each other’s views and lifestyles as long as they do not impinge on the rights of others.

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

If Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid has any hopes of gaining one or even two Haredim as his fans, his deputy Finance Minister blew it “on air” when he called Haredim “parasites” on a Haredi radio program.

Universal army service will help integrate Haredim into the workplace so that they can earn a livable wage and support their families.

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

Yair Lapid is handsome, charismatic and ego-centric, all that takes to become a political leader and for TIME Magazine to rate him as one of the world’s top 100 influential people in the world.

How Lapid's solution to his Finance job woes, employing his tried and true, unabashed populism, blew in his face.

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...

"The movement calls on its members to not participate in reality shows that do not befit the movement's spirit."

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

The biggest losers, without a doubt, are the Haredi parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism.