Posts Tagged: knesset
If You Only Have 24 Hours in Jerusalem
JNS.org - A city with as much history and culture as Jerusalem compels visitors to spend quite a bit of time exploring the many sites and...
Yair Lapid: Report on Gaza War Proves United Nations is ‘Out of its Mind’
The chairman of Israel's centrist Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid criticized on Monday a forthcoming United Nations report on last summer's war between Israel and Hamas in...
Netanyahu’s New Government Will ‘Strive for Peace Deal With Palestinians’
The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Wednesday to work toward reaching a peace deal with the Palestinians, guidelines for the new...
Cost of Living and Security Among Leading Factors as Israelis Explain Voting Choices
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published reactions from Israeli voters to Tuesday's elections following the release of exit polls late in the day showing a tie...
Arab Parties Unite Ahead of Israeli Knesset Elections
JNS.org - Israel's Arab political parties—Balad, Ra'am-Ta'al, and Hadash—on Thursday announced that they will be vying in the March 17 Knesset elections on a...
Poll: 49 Percent of Israelis Want Netanyahu to Remain Prime Minister
A Channel 1 poll released on Monday revealed that 49 percent of Israeli voters believe current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should keep his...
Herzog and Livni Form Pact to Challenge Netanyahu
JNS.org - Israeli Labor party leader Isaac Herzog and Hatnuah party leader Tzipi Livni have announced that they will unite their parties and run...
Israeli Knesset Officially Disperses Ahead of March Elections
JNS.org - On Monday night, the curtain closed on one of the shortest Knesset terms in Israel's history. After only 20 months, members of...
Report: Tel Aviv Mayor to Run for Knesset
Arutz Sheva - Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai is considering becoming an MK, Labormembers close to Huldai's office told Walla! News Sunday - and has already been making preparations for a national...
Israeli Cabinet Members Skip Funeral for Ecuadoran Victim of Jerusalem Terror Attack
Ynet - All the cabinet ministers love to speak with much pathos about the significance of Jerusalem to the Jewish people; and each and every...
Knesset Winter Session to Begin on Sunday
Times of Israel - The Knesset's winter session begins this coming Sunday. When the 120 members of the Knesset sit down in the plenum for...
Knesset Foreign Affairs Chair: When We Listened to U.S. Gaza Became a Terror Base
"We must not agree to a cease-fire," charged Knesset Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee Ze'ev Elkin on Monday, telling the Israeli NRG daily that...
Israel Knesset Finance Committee Approves Joint Investment Trust Law, Opening Door for Foreign Funds to Distribute Products in Israel
Israel's Knesset took one step closer to allowing foreign funds to distribute investment products in the Jewish state, when the Finance Committee's sub-committee on capital...
Swastika Graffiti Discovered in Jerusalem on Holocaust Memorial Day
Abraham's Tent, a Jewish hostel in Jerusalem, was victim to vandals who marked their highly visible sign, located across the street from Israel's Knesset, with...
