Politics

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has protested to Israeli Ambassador Gilad Ardan that Israel refused to back up the resolution that the U.S. led to a vote in the UN Security Council on Friday night condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, senior Israeli officials said. Last week, the Prime Minister's Office and the Foreign Ministry said that the United States understood the Israeli position and did not put pressure on it regarding its position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid told ministers A security that took...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett flew secretly to Moscow early Saturday morning, and is currently in the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of his attempt to mediate a diplomatic solution to end the war in Ukraine. Bennett is the first Western leader to meet with Putin since the beginning of the Russian invasion ten days ago, although some of them did talk to him on the phone. The report of the meeting was first published by the Reuters news agency, quoting a Kremlin spokesman. About half an hour later, Bennett's office issued an official statement confirming the report

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kolba has attacked El Al over a payment option through a Russian payment system provided on the company's website. Kolba posted a photo from the site, which marked the possibility of paying through the "Mir" payment system set up by the Central Bank of Russia. "While the world imposes sanctions on Russia for its barbaric actions in Ukraine, others prefer to make money absorbed in Ukrainian blood," Kolba wrote. "Here, El Al is receiving payments from the 'Mir' payment system, which was designed to circumvent sanctions." This is an immoral act and a...

Photographed footage obtained by the press on Thursday from social media posts reveals the neglect of refugees who came from the war in Ukraine and landed at Ben Gurion Airport. Recognition, "said one lander in a video posted on Facebook." Hot here, stuffy here. " Following the documentation, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked ordered that the procedure be changed immediately and that those waiting at Ben Gurion Airport be transferred regularly to the hotel, where they will stay until a decision is made on their case. "The Minister thanked the Minister of Defense, Bnei Gantz, for his decision...

Coalition Chairman Idit Silman has decided to resign from the coalition. The cracks were heard in the coalition for a long time. The dispute between Silman and Nitzan Horowitz over the chametz conference for hospitals. After the bomb was dropped on Wednesday by the leader of the retiring coalition, Idit Silman, the political system has three options. The first is to go to the polls - a move that is estimated to be preferred by opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud. Elections will be possible if Silman is followed by another retiree from the right, who will allow her and...

Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David defeated former Histadrut chairman Ofer Eini in Tuesday's Histadrut elections. Bar-David won 77.78 percent of the vote, while Eini won 22.24 percent, according to the announcement of the Election Commission. The final turnout in the election for the position of chairman was 42.3%, which is 254,000 people - out of 601,000 who have the right to vote. In the elections to the Histadrut conference, Bar-David's faction, Anchors, won 78.6% of the kosher votes, numbering only about 130,000. The All of Us Rock Eye faction won 21.4% of the vote. Bar-David (65) took...

The big party of the gay community: The 23rd Pride Parade in Tel Aviv was launched at noon (Friday) from the gathering stage at Sportek North in the city. More than 80,000 people attended the event. "We are here each and every one of us to celebrate our colorfulness, to demand our right to security in the public space, to show ourselves and our right to full equality of rights in the State of Israel," said Tel Aviv-Yafo Mayor Ron Huldai, who launched the parade with Hila Peer, Yu. R. Partner of the Association for the LGBT. The parade passes through Rokach Boulevard and will reach the show...

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...