Posts Tagged: Netanyahu Coalition
Likud Accuses Naftali Bennett of ‘Defrauding His Voters’ With Yesh Atid Alliance
Israel Hayom - As coalition talks entered a third week on Sunday, tensions between Likud-Beytenu and Habayit Hayehudi continued to escalate, with no...
Netanyahu Stands by Two State Solution
YNet - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday reaffirmed his commitment to the two-state solution ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit in Israel. Addressing the...
End the Shenanigans and Form a Government
The excessively slow pace of Israel's electoral and political systems impose dysfunction at a time when a strong, strategically directed government is...
Netanyahu Invites Naftali Bennett to Coalition Talks
Times of Israel - Five years after he quit as Benjamin Netanyahu's chief of staff, and well over two weeks since the elections, ...
Different Coalition Possibilities Considered as 19th Israeli Knesset Inaugurated
Israel's new 120-member Knesset was sworn in Tuesday two weeks after the country's parliamentary election. "The public's eyes are on you, members of Knesset, in the...
Distorting the Israeli Election Results
Immediately after the results of the recent Israeli elections were announced, many commentators were quick to point out that there was a near 60-60 tie...
Israel’s Yachimovich: Labor Will Stay in Oppositon
YNet - Following a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday evening, Labor Chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich announced that her party was determined to sit in...
Opinion: Israeli Elections and the Peace Process
In the run up to the Israeli elections, the great fear discussed by pundits the world over was that Israelis would take a drastic...
Opinion: Is There a Future?
It's now clear that the polls were wrong: Yesh Atid (Hebrew for "there is a future") party leader Yair Lapid took many votes...
80 Knesset Elects Endorse Netanyahu as Prime Minister
Jerusalem Post - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will receive an endorsement from 80 MK-elects over the next two days as the 12 factions in...
In Israel, Likud-Beitenu Yesh Atid Coalition Begins to Take Form
Despite reports that Shelly Yachimovich, the leader of Israel's Labor party attempted a move to block Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from forming Israel's next government...
Israel’s Lapid Says Blocking Majority Off the Table, Hopes to Work with Netanyahu
Times of Israel - Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid quashed any talk of forming a blocking majority to keep Benjamin Netanyahu from staying on...
Report: Labor Party Leader Yachimovich Will Attempt to Thwart Netanyahu From Forming Government
Israel's Channel 2 is reporting that Israel's Labor party leader Shelly Yachimovich has said she will do everything in her power to stop Prime Minister...
Potpurri: Obama and Israel, Bibi’s Next Fight, and America’s Natural Gas Boom
I believe the President is absolutely sincere when his surrogates advise Israeli officials that, as The New York Times of June 7th described it, they...
