Politics

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will continue to be Likud chairman: Gideon Sa'ar hoped to make a huge surprise and defeat the Likud chairman, but Netanyahu defeated him in the pre-party elections. The final results released Friday night show that Netanyahu won 72.5% of the votes, compared to 27.5% for the storm. 41,792 of the voters voted for the prime minister, compared with 15,585 for his opponent. In Tel Aviv, the battle was tight, but in most of the communities - including the southern cities - Netanyahu overcame his opponent in a big gap. At 11am

Worldwide, the New Year, and the new decade, are receiving huge fireworks and performances. The celebrations that began at noon in the Eastern Hemisphere will reach Israel at midnight. The first countries to receive 2020 were Samoa and Kiribati, Pacific Islander countries, to which the New Year arrived at 12:00 noon. New Zealand, the first major country to be counted back, received the New Year at 1 p.m. Two hours later, 2020 also entered Sydney in Australia, in the midst of huge fires in the area.

The Labor party and "Gesher" with Orly Levy-Abekasis stwill unite with Meretz and the Democratic unity. They will run together in one left party for the 23rd Knesset. At the conclusion of a meeting at the home of Labor chairman Amir Peretz in Sderot, Labor chairman-Gesher Orly Levy and chairman of Meretz Nitzan Horowitz. They agreed to unite for the upcoming elections. "Peretz and Horowitz intend to emphasize the gospel of significant unification and the hope for political change that will be the social heart and political compass of the next government after the end of the Netanyahu...

The International Holocaust Forum held in Israel is an event in which more than 50 leaders from around the world came to Israel, although some disagreed with Israeli policy. All this to say in a clear and uncompromising voice of the Holocaust must not happen again. State President Reuben Rabin holds dozens of meetings with the leaders who came to Israel and does the characteristic of the necessary statehood. Among the key leaders who came to Israel, we see French President Emmanuel Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who with all his toughness is very close to the Jewish people and...

The Federation of Consumer Authority examined the characterization of Israeli consumer behavior in 2019, and the results are fascinating. Only 43% of respondents believe that the conduct of businesses in Israel is fair, while 51% say it is unfair. It should be noted that the perception of fairness of Israeli businesses increases with the income level of the subjects. Another significant figure that emerges from the survey is that 80% of the Israeli public will stop buying from a business that infringes on its workers' rights, and a similar figure has suggested that it would be better to buy...

On Tuesday evening, the Knesset committee approved MK Haim Katz's request for immunity, after he opened his second hearing this morning. The committee voted for granting immunity to Katz in two of the three grounds he requested. In voting on the first cause, with the support of 16 Knesset members in opposition to 10 and 4 abstentions, the Knesset committee decided to grant Katz immunity from prosecution on fraud and breach of trust. Beyond the right-wing / ultra-Orthodox bloc, MK Oded Forer and MK Julia Malinowski also voted in favor. The ten opposing MKs were a white brush, the...

The average monthly income of the upper decile is 12 times greater than the income of the lower decile - according to a report from the Ripple Center, published Wednesday, which shows an increase in income gaps between the rich and the poor. In addition, the report shows that most rental income goes to the top deciles and that the middle class in Israel is the smallest in the OECD countries. According to the report, in 2018, the average gross income of households headed by an employee was NIS 66,584 in the top decile - compared with 5,501 in the lower decile only. In the last three years,...

A resounding failure of the Blue and White Party and tremendous success for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Likud is close to achieving the necessary majority of 61 Knesset members. Exit models show that the Likud won between 36 and 37 seats, while Blue and White suffers from 32 to 33 seats. The ultra-Orthodox win 17 seats in the Knesset. Shas with 9 and Torah Judaism gets 8 seats. The voting rate is particularly high 71%. The left in Israel is crashing.The joint Arabic list receives between 14 and 15 seats.Right takes 7 seats, Avigdor Lieberman's party Israel Beitano receives...

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister for the past 11 years, is never one to waste a good crisis. In recent days he has used his televised briefings on the covid-19 pandemic to exhort the leader of the opposition, Benny Gantz, to join an emergency unity government—under Mr Netanyahu, of course. The prime minister seems undeterred by the failure of his coalition of nationalist and religious parties to win a majority in the parliamentary election on March 2nd, or by the charges of bribery and fraud that he faces for allegedly receiving illegal gifts and trading favours for positive...