Posts Tagged: Israeli politics
Israelis Divided Over Military Drafting of Ultra-Orthodox Jews
A decades-old exemption of ultra-Orthodox Jews from compulsory military service is a deeply divisive issue in Israel at the heart of a cabinet crisis that could lead...
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Urges Feuding Coalition to Remain Intact
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly urged his feuding coalition partners on Monday to remain in the government, despite speculation he was seeking its collapse...
Not Indispensable, But Also Not Easily Replaced
JNS.org – For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legion of critics, it was all just a big distraction from the main event. As far as they...
Amid Host of Corruption Probes, Netanyahu’s Likud Party Continues to Gain in Polls
JNS.org – Amid a host of ongoing corruption investigations potentially implicating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his close associates, Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party continues to gain popularity, Israel’s...
Dysfunctional Politics and Disgraceful Behavior
The criminal charges recommended by the Israel Police against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the politicians’ and media’s reactions amount to perhaps the most scandalous...
Likud, Netanyahu Supporters Say Prime Minister Will Survive
JNS.org - Just as President Donald Trump overcame the media and left-wing establishment to win the US election despite his bluster and personal baggage, so too...
Some on Israeli Left Slant Right Amid Changing Political Map
JNS.org - Avi Gabbay, a leader of Israel’s political left -- and presumably one of the top challengers to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- has surprised...
Israeli Prime Ministerial Hopeful Avi Gabbay: We Should Scare Our Enemies, Instead of Letting Them Scare Us
Turmoil is the new status quo in the halls of the Knesset, amid a number of deepening police investigations into corruption allegations against Israeli Prime...
How the Israeli Left Views the Palestinians
JNS.org - Some Jewish institutions in America are under siege these days, and their principal critics aren’t neo-Nazis. Despite the clear leftward tilt of a large...
Palestinian Authority Official Expresses Hope Mounting Legal Troubles Will Lead to Israeli PM’s Ouster; Netanyahu: It Won’t Happen
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s mounting legal troubles have become the center of attention in Israel, and now Palestinian officials are chiming in as well. One unnamed...
The Temple Mount: No Longer in Our Hands?
"It is extremely important that a solution to the current crisis be found by Friday this week…The dangers on the ground will escalate if we...
Temple Mount Attack and the Demise of the ‘One-State’ Theory
"Extending Israeli sovereignty over Judea-Samaria (and eventually over the Gaza Strip) is indeed a necessary condition for ensuring the ability of Israel to endure as...
Israel’s Opposition Aids Delegitimizers
"We are undergoing a process of fascistization of Israeli politics. These are hard words but they are true. Artists, actors and playwrights are under threat,...
Ehud Barak’s ‘Slippery Slope’
In an interview Wednesday with Tim Sebastian -- host of the program "Conflict Zone" on German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle -- former Israeli Prime Minister...
