Politics

The chairman of the Blue and White Party decided to betray his senior partners to the party, causing a split. Benny Gantz decided to join a national emergency government with the Likud. Netanyahu will be prime minister for a year and a half, and then Gantz will be appointed. Benny Gantz and his party resilience to Israel will have 15 Knesset members. Benny Gantz was appointed Speaker of the Knesset and later after the establishment of the government, July Edelstein is expected to return to office. In response, the Telem and Yesh Atid split from Blue and White

The Prime Minister succeeded in bringing about the removal of the chairwoman of the Corona Committee in the Knesset, MK Yifat Shasha Bitton. This is because it did not align itself with the government's decisions and approved the easing contrary to Netanyahu's opinion. Reminds you of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan that democracy is not his strong suit? After a stormy faction meeting, shouts and exchanges between MKs and Likud ministers over a breach of coalition discipline - including a vote on the law banning conversion therapy - the sanctions came on Tuesday. Coalition Chairman Miki...

A huge explosion shook the port area of ​​Beirut, Lebanon. The country's health minister told local media that more than 50 people were killed in the blast, at least 3,000 were injured - and many more are still trapped under the rubble. Testimonies from those present at the scene of the explosion, which was felt even in Cyprus, indicate that this is an event of a magnitude that has not been seen for years in Lebanon. Hospitals are collapsing under congestion, and many injured are receiving medical treatment on the streets. "The firefighters who were called to the scene simply disappeared...

On Saturday evening for the eighth week in a row, many Israelis demonstrated at bridges and intersections across the country in protest of the conduct of the government and its leader - Benjamin Netanyahu - regarding the economic crisis. Also, many thousands protested in front of the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, under the headline "We are the hope - voting with our feet," and hundreds demonstrated near his home in Caesarea. One of the signs read: "When will you make peace between us?". At the same time, police announced that they had arrested a Hadera resident on suspicion of...

On Saturday evening for the eighth week in a row, many Israelis demonstrated at bridges and intersections across the country in protest of the conduct of the government and its leader - Benjamin Netanyahu - regarding the economic crisis. Also, many thousands protested in front of the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, under the headline "We are the hope - voting with our feet," and hundreds demonstrated near his home in Caesarea. One of the signs read: "When will you make peace between us?". At the same time, police announced that they had arrested a Hadera resident on suspicion of...

The protest against government corruption and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued on Saturday evening. About ten thousand people came to protest outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem. Earlier, without police approval, hundreds of them held a procession that left the String Bridge in the capital, and ended in Paris Square near Netanyahu's residence on Balfour Street. During the demonstration, clashes broke out between police and protesters and more than seven of them were arrested. During the demonstration in Jerusalem, a policeman was injured by stone throwing at him...

The government will continue to function and the Knesset will not disperse tomorrow at midnight. This is after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday evening that he accepts the compromise proposal to postpone the approval of the state budget by one hundred days. He said, "This compromise proposal is the right answer for Israel at this time. It is time for unity, it is not time for elections." Netanyahu added that "the government must be stopped within the government. I hear on the radio wild attacks on the prime minister out of blue and white, out of the government. I say: enough...

The Knesset plenum this evening (Monday) approved the bill to postpone the approval of the state budget by 120 days. The proposal was approved with the support of 67 MKs, including the Likud and Blue and White, compared to 37 opponents. As a result, the Knesset will not be dissolved and a fourth election campaign will be prevented within two years. According to the bill, the determining date for approving the budget will be December 23. NIS 11 billion will be added to the state budget for 2020, and the total updated budget is NIS 411 billion. The addition will be used, among other things,...

The protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wa being held in a number of centers throughout the country Saturday night, for the 12th week in a row. Earlier, civilians demonstrated on bridges across the country, and throughout the evening more protests will take place near the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem and near the Netanyahu family's home in Caesarea. This, in protest of the "government corruption", in the words of the protesters, the manner in which the Corona crisis was handled and against the background of the imminent return to closure. In Jerusalem, thousands of...

For the first time since the closure was imposed, thousands of people demonstrated on Sunday evening against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Paris Square, near his residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem. This is the 14th demonstration in a row since a protest began against the continuation of his tenure under indictments and against the background of the failures to deal with the corona plague. During the demonstration, police arrested a suspicious driver who was driving toward police checkpoints and stopped creaking as he approached police. The driver, a resident of Jerusalem in his...