Agriculture

Of the 22 parties currently running, 14 parties are currently all polling within one or two seats above or below the electoral threshold, many within a margin of error. Party leaders will be forced to make compromises and political alliances, or risk not making it through to the parliament.

The Bedouin residents of an illegal outpost have begun to cultivate a huge tract of land, using heavy equipment, in an attempt to establish facts on the ground that will be very difficult to reverse.

Honduras will be moving ahead with plans to open its Israel embassy in Jerusalem, and Israel is in talks to open its own Honduran embassy.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, met with Christian friends of Israel and the Jewish community in the South American country.

While she has consistently criticized Wall Street and held on to standard left-wing positions, her record on Israel has been, at best, mixed.

He has never held public office; his political, economic and social views are virtually unknown. Yet his newly established party is already outpolling current opposition parties.

After two Habayit Hayehudi ministers quit party to launch New Right party, Likud ministers say the move will “hand votes to the left.”

Jewish Home Party leaders Naftali Bennett (Education and Diaspora Affairs Minister) and Ayelet Shaked (Justice Minister ) announced on Saturday night that they were leaving the religious party to start a “New Right” party they hope can unite religious and secular Israelis.

“Hosen L’Yisrael” (“Resilience for Israel”) will seek “continued development and strengthening of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state according to the Zionist vision as it is expressed in the Declaration of Independence, while establishing and changing national priorities in the fields of education, development of national infrastructure, agriculture, rule of law and internal security, peace and security.”

“As the only democracy in the Middle East and our strongest ally in the region, Israel and her security are paramount to our interests at home and abroad.”

After Palestinian gunmen kill, wound 14 Israelis in multiple attacks, U.S. ambassador to Israel blasts Palestinian Authority laws compensating perpetrators for “heinous act” • Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel threatens to bolt government unless cabinet restores security.

The aim? According to Israel’s Land Law, the continual agricultural presence of a farmer affords him rights to the land.