Politics

Yitzhak Herzog was elected the 11th President of the State of Israel. Herzog won by an overwhelming majority of 87 supporters, the highest number in the state, over the 26 supporters of his rival Miriam Peretz, with whom he hugged in the plenum stand when the two then watched the vote together. In the victory speech, he declared that he would be "everyone's president" and would work to heal the rifts in Israeli society, as well as against anti-Semitism in the world. "With reverence and great excitement, I am the poorest of the deeds, accepting the election of the Knesset of Israel to me as...

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...

Disabled people's organizations have renewed their protest for rights and budgets and are demonstrating in a variety of centers across the country. According to the organizations, the protest is renewed because the government and the Ministry of Finance are not implementing the Disability Benefit Increase Act passed in February 2018, because no state budget has been passed for about two years. The demonstrators are expected to block major roads and demonstrate in front of government ministries. A statement issued by the disabled people's organizations stated that "the demonstrations will...

Hundreds of farmers on Thursday blocked major intersections from north to south in protest of the Ministry of Finance's intention to introduce a reform in the import of agricultural produce, which is expected to lead to falling prices for a range of products in supermarkets and containers. Farmers block roads using tractors, agricultural produce and various tools, and dump vegetables and eggs on the floor. "The settlement was not established in the Arrangements Law, nor will it be dismantled in the Arrangements Law," they attacked. Demonstrations are taking place at eight major...

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...