Tag: Yisrael Beiteinu

Lowering the threshold would thus could give the rightwing block as many as 70 seats in the next Knesset—it now hovers around 65, and clip one or two Arab seats that would travel back to the Zionist leftwing parties.

He called Bennett's idea of severing all contacts with the PA and canceling all agreements reached with it an "election slogan."

Kirschenbaum often asked, spurred or demanded from other public officials, heads of public bodies, directors of associations and private individuals to work together with her to realize her improper goals and to conceal them."

The Joint Arab List would retain its power with 13 seats, followed by Habayit Hayehudi which would rise from 8 to 12 seats.

Disagreement over a rotation agreement is threatening to dismantle the Joint Arab List, which to date has been a monumental success story in Israeli politics.

'What's outrageous is Abbas's refusal to condemn the heinous murder.'

'These are the sticks and carrots. The housing units are already being marketed, there is no room for debate.'

One major event could sweep any of the four center-field players into or away from leading or becoming a major partner in a ruling coalition. The battle will be joined at the center, while the right and the left will see only minute changes.

In the 1990s, European countries complained about Israeli citizens with Israeli passports who were engaged in criminal activity, which affected Israel's visa agreements.

Prime Minister Netanyahu suggested that 'the activism of the American Jewry does not always help.'

Druze members of Knesset also responded angrily to the report.

Alon Friedman of the Hillel organization waxed philosophical: 'A Jew is not someone whose grandfather was a Jew but someone whose grandson would be a Jew.'

The pressure to go ahead with the bill came from rightwing Likud members, as well as from Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Habayit Hayehudi) and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beiteinu).

University President Carmi rejected the accusation that the University was trying to silence a member of its Board of Governors.

North Korea called Israel the 'only illegal possessor of nukes in the Middle East under the patronage of the US.'

'Hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens in Galilee, the Negev, Jerusalem, and other areas in the center of the country routinely and daily suffer from the noise of the Meuzzin cries in the mosques.'

Liberman also said it would be unrealistic and impossible to reach a permanent arrangement between Israel and the Arabs in Judea and Samaria, especially in light of the extremist positions of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

Shaked is spearheading several concurrent moves, all of which have provided the context for a proposed bill to deprive the Supreme Court members of the Judicial Appointments Commission of their veto power over candidates.

Justice Na'or's rage was outright Chekhovian.

It remains to be seen which way Netanyahu will cleverly evade this crisis, and whether or not he is prepared to either arm wrestle the high court or put down a rightwing rebellion in his own party.

Why would Israel be so invested in taking money away from the only PA Arabs who still have something good to say about it, and give it to the PLO?

The rightwing parties could possibly combine their numbers to boycott either Kahlon or Lapid, or both, from the future coalition government.

In terms of political affiliation, the Knesset factions would have experienced a serious tilt to the right were the elections held this week.

In the end, the chairman's position was accepted by a hefty majority of 750 to 402 votes, and the primaries in the Labor Party are officially postponed until July 2017.

Liberman recommended that soldiers who are not sure about the rules of engagement ask their superiors.

Among the privileges which will become outlawed should the bill pass are conjugal visits, canteen purchases, and possession of TV sets and game consoles.

In January 2015 Shamir announced he was leaving the party and would not run in the 2015 elections because of to disagreements with Liberman over foreign policy.

Zoabi persisted, but at that point the plenum had tuned into a serious storm, with many MKs. crowding the podium and demanding that she be removed.

Former MK and Tourism Minister Uzi Landau resigned his post as co-chair of Keren Kayemet L'Israel.

Another demoted Balad leader is Jamal Zahalka who landed the fifth spot, which would only get him a seat should the Joint Arab List pick up between 18 and 20 mandates