Politics

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 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...

The corona plague is far from over, and the death toll from it worldwide is already approaching one million. However, although the basic tools for curbing the plague are already known to all, governments continue to fail to address its basic treatment, says the weekly Economist, which cites Israel as an example of such failure, due to arrogance and internal struggles. An article in the weekly said that although the number of patients in Corona in the world is probably much higher than current estimates, there are reasons for optimism, whether due to the slowdown in mortality or due to the...

The State of Israel is marching towards elections following the resignation of Minister Assaf Zamir. Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Bnei Gantz announced after the crisis (Friday) that he had instructed Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn to begin the process of appointing a state attorney, and said that his party would also advance the process of appointing commissioner. Finding the position of Deputy Attorney General, against the background of public criticism of the party, and after Tourism Minister Assaf Zamir announced his resignation from the government earlier. "We have...

Restrictions on demonstrations only encouraged protesters and the number of targeted demonstrations increased by tens of percent. Thousands of people came to hundreds of centers across the country on Saturday night against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and government corruption. During several of the various protest events, clashes broke out between the protesters and the police forces. Some of the demonstrators in Tel Aviv went out in processions on several streets, blocking major arteries in the city. About 12 demonstrators were arrested in Tel Aviv for violating restrictions and...

The Minister of the Environment has suffered a fatal blow to her political career in making a very wrong decision. She did not understand like many other ministers that red lines should not be crossed. Not only did she break the rules like many of the public and traveled to Tiberias but she continued to lie to Ministry of Health officials who conducted the epidemiological investigation and did not report her true location and became a super-distributor of the corona virus. About four hours passed between the first conversation that the Minister of Environmental Protection, Gila Gamliel...

Confrontation within the Likud at the top of the government: Finance Minister Israel Katz sharply criticized the closure policy led by the Ministry of Health with the support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In internal finance ministry discussions on formulating an economic assistance program for the self-employed and unemployed, the minister said: "I will not let millions of people sink into despair and disgrace from hunger because of wrong decisions by the Ministry of Health to close the economy indiscriminately and without any health justification