Politics

The cost of the elections to the 25th Knesset, which was announced yesterday (Monday), is estimated at NIS 2.7 billion. It consists of the cost of the Sabbath, which stands at about NIS 1.5 billion, and an estimated cost of the Central Election Commission budget that will be NIS 1-0.8 billion (compared to about NIS 700 million in the elections to the 24th Knesset) and party funding that will stand at about NIS 200 million. . For comparison, the total cost of the previous elections was NIS 2.4 billion

Outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Wednesday evening his intention not to run in the upcoming elections. His office said Bennett would remain in office as an alternate prime minister after the rotation took place. In a special statement he later made from the Knesset, Bennett announced that "now is my time to step back a little and look at things from the outside." He thanked his political partners, who he said "stood by my side even when it was difficult," and announced that Minister Ayelet Shaked would take over the leadership of the right-wing party. Ynet broadcast the...

Ben & Jeris Israel can continue to sell ice cream all over Israel and Judea and Samaria: a significant achievement for Ben & Jeris Israel and owner and CEO Avi Singer: In an agreement signed with the global company Unilever it was agreed that the Israeli company will continue to produce and sell ice cream all over Israel including Judea And Samaria.The arrangement ends the dispute between the parties. Ben & Jerry's Israel (American Quality Products), owned by Avi Singer, announces today (Wednesday) the signing of an agreement with the international company Unilever, which ensures the...

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

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

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

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

The Knesset plenum approved the extension of the state of emergency that was declared in Israel upon the establishment of the state, and has been extended repeatedly since then. With the declaration of a state of emergency in 1948, it was not precisely defined what such a state was. Extending its validity has two main consequences: authorizing the government to establish emergency regulations that can override Knesset legislation; and the authorization of the Knesset to enact laws that depend on the validity of a state of emergency

Rebellion in Russia. The mercenaries of the "Wagner group", who crossed the border from Ukraine and took over Russian army installations on Saturday, continue to advance towards the Russian capital and cause panic in the country. The head of the "Wagner Group", Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced this morning that he arrived in the southern Rostov district together with 25,000 fighters, with the aim of deposing the heads of the army - Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov. "We are ready to die," he said. As part of Prigozhin's rebellion in the Russian army, because of...