Politics

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Politics
124,000 documents - which reached the British Guardian newspaper and was named The Uber Files. The paper shared the documents with the International Researchers' Organization, ICIJ, and through it with 180 journalists and 44 media outlets around the world including the Washington Post, the French Le Monde, the British BBC, and more. Guards, through journalist Uri Blau, is the Israeli representative in the project. In Israel, the leak raises the curtain over the company's attempts to infiltrate and the extensive array of connections, pressures, and lobbying it has activated
Jul 10, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Politics
The Likud primaries were extended until 10:30 p.m. after pressure exerted by the party's chairman, Binyamin Netanyahu. Although the turnout, which stood at 9:00 p.m. at 54%, is similar to the previous primaries, Netanyahu is putting pressure on party members and asked to extend the vote even until midnight - when the goal is to weaken the power of the groups organized in Likud. In the last few hours towards the evening, dozens of SMS messages, recorded messages and videos were sent to the functionaries, after in Netanyahu's opinion too few functionaries voted for the five armors he...
Aug 10, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Politics
The preliminary elections in Likud proved that those who are loyal to Netanyahu succeed in a big way. All the candidates who criticized the police and the prosecutor's office and the courts reached high places. The winner of the election is Levin's opponent and he will be number two after Netanyahu. Eli Cohen, who was very strong despite coming from Kahlon's Kulana party, ranked third. He is followed by Yoav Galant and fifth Dodi Amsalem. In the first ten are some interesting figures, mainly Amir Ohana and the strong woman in Likud, Miri Regev
Aug 11, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Politics
Ariel Koren, a marketing manager at Google who was one of the leaders of the protest against "Nimbus", the company's agreement with Israel, has announced that she is resigning from the company. According to her, Google tried to harass her following her activism. Koren, a 28-year-old American of Jewish origin, feared that the technology that Google would provide to Israel would harm the Palestinians. Koren worked in the field of educational products at Google for seven years. For more than a year, she organized the protest against Nimbos, a $1.2 billion contract under which Google and...
Aug 31, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Politics
Five election campaigns in less than four years cost us a lot of money, when all the expenses and damages to the economy in one election campaign are estimated at three billion shekels, including the cost of the Sabbath day and the damage to economic growth. Today (Sunday) the Finance Committee approved the budget proposal of the Central Election Committee for the elections to the 25th Knesset, which this time will amount to approximately NIS 538 million
Oct 23, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Politics
After a long and tedious process, which included going through and debating every comma and line of the 4,155-page document, the US House of Representatives joined the Senate in approving next year's US budget of $1.7 trillion on Friday. Members of Congress entered a frantic last-minute race to pass the budget Before Christmas, while the storm winds are raging outside and across the US the lowest temperatures have been recorded in years
Dec 24, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Politics
At least 80,000 people came on Saturday evening to the main demonstration in Tel Aviv's Bima Square - the largest so far against the new government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Many of them came to the square with Israeli flags. In the city of Haifa about 2,000 people protested against the planned legal revolution and at the same time about 3,000 people demonstrated in front of the President's House in Jerusalem before marching towards Paris Square. Demonstrators also gathered in Modiin in front of the home of Justice Minister Yariv Levin.
Jan 14, 2023

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Politics
The demonstrations against the legal revolution led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Justice Minister Yariv Levin continued this evening (Saturday) in the shadow of the attacks that took place during Shabbat in Jerusalem. About 40,000 people came to the centers of the demonstrations in Tel Aviv, in Haifa about 13,000 participated in one of the largest demonstrations ever held in the city, and large demonstrations were also held in a number of other cities
Jan 28, 2023