Politics

After the mandate for the formation of the government was given to chairman Yesh Atid Yair Lapid, Netanyahu's opponents are preparing for the implementation of the most complex stage to date - a real and public attempt to form a government and prevent a fifth election. From the moment the possibility of forming a government with Netanyahu was dropped, among other things in light of Smutrich's opposition to joining the government with RAAM and Gideon Saar's opposition to joining a government in which Netanyahu will serve as prime minister at some point, Naftali Bennett announced Wednesday...

Right-wing party chairman Naftali Bennett said today (Thursday) that a new government led by him and Yair Lapid is no longer an option and dropped out of the chapter. Meanwhile, the party's negotiating teams met today with Likud teams. Chairman Yesh Atid Yair Lapid, who has the mandate to form a government, commented on Bennett's decision and said that "I understand the distress, but he is wrong. Change is not made when comfortable. Whoever waits for the right moment will find that he will never come. Change is made when you believe it is the right thing to do. "Lapid added in a statement...

Ahead of the formation of a new government in Israel, Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin announced that Yair Lapid had managed to form a government with Naftali Bennett, but so far has not determined when the vote will take place to approve the formation of a new government. Meanwhile, the coalition agreements between the parties are revealed. The cost of forming a new government, as reflected in the clauses of the coalition agreements published so far, is estimated at around NIS 20 billion a year for the state budget. The full agreements will only be revealed when they are laid on the Knesset...

About 1,500 people came to demonstrate Saturday night near the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, on the evening of the last Saturday before the expected inauguration of the new government. The demonstrators came to the weekly demonstration in Paris Square as part of a protest against Netanyahu. The designated prime minister, Naftali Bennett, said in a press release: "This is not the time for demonstrations and provocations. I call for Netanyahu and his family to be treated with respect." In another demonstration held by the organization of black flags at the Nahariya junction, a man...

The Ben & Jerrys affair, the ice cream maker that announced Monday that it will not sell its products in the territories, caused a great deal of controversy throughout Israeli politics. However, the company's original decision was even more decisive. According to an NBC report, the intervention of Unilever, the giant corporation owned by Ben & Jerrys, softened the statement. Yesterday, the company announced that it would stop selling ice cream in the occupied territories, and that it would not renew its franchise agreement, under which an Israeli company manufactured the ice cream at a...

99,079 Israelis received their third vaccine over the weekend. A total of 1,365,887 received the booster dose. This is according to data published tonight (Saturday) by the Ministry of Health. In addition, 7,249 Israelis received the first dose of the vaccine. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 6.7% of those aged 40 to 49 have already received the third vaccine dose, as have 34% of those aged 50 to 59, 58.5% of those aged 60 to 69, 74.6% of those aged 70 to 79, 70.4% of those aged 80 to 89 and 65.1 % Among people aged 90 and over. At the same time, there was an increase over the...

The chairman of the Knesset's Interior Committee, Said Al-Kharomi (RAAM), died last night (Tuesday to Wednesday) at the age of 49 after suffering a heart attack. "The Islamic Movement and Ra'am announce with great sorrow the death of the righteous Banan, MK Said al-Kharomi, after a heart attack during the night," the party said in a statement. The party's chairman, Mansour Abbas, paid tribute to him outside the hospital. "An energetic and very smart young politician," he said. "He always believed in his way as the son of the Arabs of the Negev. The loss is great. "

Intel has terminated business relations with the Israeli offensive cyber company NSO, following the latter's entry into the US blacklist - according to a report in the Financial Times. NSO reportedly uses equipment it purchases from a number of US vendors - such as Dell servers, Intel hardware and Cisco routers, and uses computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system. As you may recall, in early November, the US Department of Commerce announced that NSO, along with Candiro, would be blacklisted by entities acting against the national interest of the United States. This means that...