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Ayelet Shaked

On a tour of the United States, Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked also met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill about ways to partner on emerging technology and the Iranian threat.
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz calls the move “highly problematic”; Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked calls it an “important move based on solid intelligence.”
“I don’t think that the attorney-general should be the one to determine who is prime minister,” says Ayelet Shaked following publication of a bill to prohibit a criminal defendant from heading the country.
“We do believe in economic peace to improve Palestinian lives and to do mutual industrial zones,” said Israel’s interior minister. “But not a state with an army, definitely.”
Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz talks with Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked ahead of the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sept. 12, 2021. Source: Channel 12/Screenshot.
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“Our problem is people who don’t get vaccinated. We need [to influence] them a bit; otherwise, we’ll never get out of this,” Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz tells Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked.
A., a Palestinian man who had to flee the Palestinian Authority after coming to the aid of Jewish victims of a Palestinian terror attack in 2016. Photo: Efrat Eshel.
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“We will never turn our backs on a friend,” says Israeli Interior Minister Ayalet Shaked.
The interior minister urges consumers not to boycott the Israel franchisee and says the government is working to overturn the parent company’s “anti-Semitic” decision to halt sales in certain areas.
“The government proved it is being held hostage by the Arab parties. We will not rest. This law will pass,” said Likud Knesset member Avi Dichter, one of the bill’s authors.
“I will stand on my principles and beliefs. Without Yamina, there is no government,” says right-wing Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked from her office in Jerusalem.
Ashraf Hassan took advantage of his Israeli citizenship to move around the country freely in pursuit of his plans to kidnap and kill an Israeli soldier, say military officials.
“Whoever fooled us and betrayed us has lost our trust forever,” says Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu.
The Yamina Party No. 2 has been the focus of pressure by right-wing activists not to go along with party leader Naftali Bennett’s decision to join and head an anti-Netanyahu “change government.”