Netanyahu’s Likud, UTJ reach interim coalition deal
Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party reached an interim coalition agreement with the United Torah Judaism Party on Tuesday. According to Israeli media, UTJ head Yitzchak Goldknopf will oversee the Construction and Housing Ministry and UTJ MK Moshe Gafni will chair the Knesset Finance Committee. The party will also receive control over the Jerusalem […]
Netanyahu on criticism of coalition partners: ‘I ultimately decide policy’
Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu attempted on Sunday to assuage critics of his emerging right-wing government by vowing to uphold Israel’s liberal democracy, pointing to his lengthy track record of guiding the nation and emphasizing that the buck on devising policy stops with him. “I’m going to safeguard Israeli democracy, I’m going to bring peace…and I’m […]
Netanyahu’s Likud reaches coalition deal with Noam Party
Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu struck a coalition deal with Noam Party head Avi Maoz on Sunday night that will make the latter a deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, according to media reports. Maoz, an opponent of LGBTQ rights, will reportedly oversee a new department in the PMO in charge of strengthening Israel’s […]
Pres. Herzog to give Netanyahu the mandate to form a government
After meeting with all the parties, President Herzog concluded that 64 members of the Knesset recommended Netanyahu for the position of prime minister.
Israel’s Far-Left is No Better than the Anti-Zionist Arab Parties
The Likud campaign should shine more of the negative spotlight on Meretz, whose pro-Palestinian chairwoman defended misogyny against Sara Netanyahu—on the grounds that the opposition leader’s wife “brought it on herself.”
Bennett’s Bad Precedent and the Curse of Israel’s Small Parties
Despite this past year’s failed “experiment” in coalition-building and governance, the same people are at it again, reciting tired mantras about the need to “keep Bibi out of Balfour
Likud Should Ask for Our Forgiveness Not Our Votes
Ideologically, for many reasons, Likud makes sense and is a comfortable political home.
Likud Backstabbers
In the course of conversation, someone I was standing with referenced “Likud backstabbers” clearly referring to Gidon Sa’ar and Naftali Bennett and their respective parties, New Hope and Yamina.
Police Head hints at Biblical Promise of Shiloh’s Messianic Future
The speech would have been a collection of pretty words and political platitudes were it not for the setting; the precise place where the Tabernacle stood for 369 years.
Could a Fourth Election Lead to Israel’s Largest-Ever Right-Wing Government?
Just as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crushed the Blue and White alliance that challenged him less than a year ago, he has similarly demolished the country’s greater left-wing camp.
