Tag: Zionist Union

One good thing from last night: the vote results were tabulated and announced in a matter of seconds.

Gabai delivered a quasi-concession speech at around midnight at the Labor Party headquarters, but made no offer to resign.

Tzipi Livni could teach Hillary Clinton a thing or two about carpetbagging.

40% of respondents think Gantz is a central figure, 23% define him as a leftist and 11% as a rightist. 26% said they simply didn't know.

Bennett, Shaked and Smotrich have won a dizzying victory – up from 8 to 15 in the wake of one brilliant exercise.

1,350 convention delegates are required to hold open primaries for new chairperson and the Knesset list.

The bill's authors did not consider the option of permitting prostitutes to work in secure environments, where they are examined for venereal diseases and where their income is taxable.

And… gavel.

Habayit Hayehudi headed by Naftali Bennett receives 11 seats in the new poll, compared to 8 in the current Knesset.

Last week, Israel's Electricity Authority announced a rise in the cost of electricity to consumers in 2019 of between 6% and 8%.

"The people who do not observe the Shabbat played out the first act claiming there was violence, and there really wasn't. "

The previous meeting was hosted by the Knesset in 2017.

Israel's political system was shaken up Sunday after a revelation that the PA plans to seek UN condemnation of Israel over the Nationality Law, with support from the Joint Arab List.

The Struggle Headquarters propaganda maliciously misrepresents the law, using a false comparison between two Border Guard officers, one a Jew, the other a Druze.

Bahloul will presumably be replaced by Robert Tiviaev, a Russian Jewish oleh.

Gabai and Livni agreed to appoint Livni as opposition leader, while letting Gabai keep his hopes up for the Prime Minister's position.

Three Druze MKs, two of them members of the coalition, petitioned the High Court of Justice against the Nationality Law.

The new law adds to the goals of Israel's public education bringing up school children with the ideal of serving either in the IDF or the National Service.

The court is entitled not to accept the request if it is not convinced that the immediate implementation of this directive is critical for the prevention of damage.

A fine mess you got us into, Dorit Beinish, former President of the High Court of Justice.

Attorney Ella Skat of the ITIM Institute asked, “Why not compel mohalim to carry malpractice insurance?”

Needless to say, Yair Lapid, who is the founder and chairman for life of Yesh Atid, stands to gain significantly from pushing his enemy on the center-left all the way to the left in the public's mind.

Chairman of the Zionist Union Knesset faction Yoel Hasson made it clear that his party would turn the vote on the draft law into a vote of no-confidence against the Netanyahu government.

Livni's party only holds five of the 24 mandates won by the Zionist Union faction in 2015.

Andrej Danko, Speaker of the Slovak Paliament, said that "Insane racists have become members of parliament here, among other things through the cheap use of social networks, while denying historic facts."

The American Jewish leadership don't realize yet how completely manipulated they were by Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Signaling that he understand why had been selected, Herzog told the board on Sunday: “A Jew is a Jew is a Jew, no matter his denomination or the type of kippah he chooses to wear or not to wear on his head."

“We are preparing a new plan to support Gaza-vicinity communities, similar to that which was implemented after operation Protective Edge.”

Netanyahu denies he intended to cut a deal with Mozes, and claims that he was actually trying to incriminate him.

“Women denied a divorce may as well be dead,” MK Revital Swid said.