Benjamin Netanyahu
The bill, voted on by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, would limit a prime minister to two terms, or eight years • Likud: Proposed legislation is “clearly anti-democratic.”
The bill, proposed by Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar, would bar those under indictment from forming a government or serving as alternate premier.
“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.
Edelstein’s bid for the Likud chairmanship in any case is theoretical, as Likud Central Committee chairman MK Haim Katz said that he has no intention of calling for primaries in the foreseeable future.
“If the party doesn’t engage in some serious introspection, it will remain in opposition for years,” says Likud No. 2 Yuli Edelstein.
The Israeli premier has taken Israel from first to last place in the global fight against COVID-19 and caved in to U.S. pressure on Iran, says the Likud Party.
“No one wanted North Korea and Pakistan to get nuclear weapons, but it happened,” says former Israeli ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer in a special holiday interview.
Outgoing Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says that the 2018 Mossad seizure of nuclear documents from Tehran caused the former U.S. president to withdraw from the JCPOA.
“The anti-Semites weren’t only in the Budapest ghetto,” said Lapid, referring to the place his father and grandmother hid during the Holocaust. He said there were also slave traders—the Hutu who massacred Tutsis in Rwanda, Muslim fanatics and those “who beat LGBTQ people to death.”
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett reportedly intends to remain at his home in Ra’anana • Bill to be advanced setting a 14-day limit for the handover of the official residence in the future.
“No matter what your views on Israel, using Nazi imagery to describe it is not only inaccurate and offensive, but deeply anti-Semitic,” said Scott Richman, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League NY/NJ.
Bringing down Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s “fraudulent, motley and erratic” government is “for the good of the state,” says Israel’s new opposition leader.
