“New Right” party takes off, launches campaign for Likud disaffected
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, 42, and Education Minister Naftali Bennett, 46, announced Saturday, Dec. 29, the establishment of their “New
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Israel politics
Bad decisions produced Amona shambles
The live television coverage worldwide of 3,000 Israeli cops and soldiers Wednesday, Feb. 1 as they dragged people out of
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Netanyahu and his Likud are running out of time to survive the March 17 ballot
Five days before Israel’s snap election, people who have seen Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu close up say he looks weary
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Secret Netanyahu-Herzog deal for Lik-Lab government coalition after March vote
The Israeli government has traditionally been headed by one of the two rival mainstream blocs, the right-of-center Likud or the
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Israel’s electioneering politicians find little promise of changing government
The highly-personalized campaigns for Israel’s March 17 general election are by and large lackluster while exhausting the electorate’s patience with
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Reuven Rivlin wins the presidency in a run-off vote
Reuven Rivlin, 75, Likud stalwart and twice Knesset Speaker, was elected Israeli’s tenth president by the Knesset on Tuesday, June
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Will new-old Foreign Minister Lieberman join Netanyahu’s talks with Putin in Moscow?
Avigdor Lieberman’s unanimous acquittal by a Jerusalem court on charges of fraud and breach of trust, Wednesday, Nov. 6 –
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Obama’s Ill Will Blesses Netanyahu at the Polls
Every time US President Barack Obama has a harsh word to say for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, he enhances the
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Barak privately accuses President Peres of plotting his downfall
In private conversations, Defense Minister Ehud Barak who Monday, Jan. 17 resigned as Labor chairman and established a new party
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