Newsletter
Newsletter Support JNS

Blue and White exodus continues as Minister Meirav Cohen jumps ship to Yesh Atid

The social equality minister is the ninth lawmaker to leave Blue and White in the past two weeks.

Meirav Cohen
Knesset member Meirav Cohen, April 29, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Israeli Social Equality Minister Meirav Cohen announced on Tuesday that she will be leaving the Blue and White Party to join Yesh Atid ahead of the country’s March 23 elections.

Cohen is the ninth lawmaker to exit Blue and White in the past two weeks.

“Yesh Atid is pleased to announce that Social Equality Minister Meirav Cohen is joining the party,” the opposition faction said in a statement.

This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.

The missing person wasn’t identified until a hospital staffer recognized her from a post on Facebook.
StandWithUs stated that “some Jewish students at UC Law San Francisco already feel compelled to conceal their Jewish identity out of concern for their safety.”
“It is critical that we work across party lines to stop and reverse this dangerous trend,” stated Sen. Jacky Rosen, co-chair of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism.
“I believe very much in the state of Israel and its right to exist,” East Brunswick mayor Brad Cohen told JNS. “It’s critical to me that it remains a Jewish state in the Middle East.”
Russia-Iran trade on the northern route has grown to bypass the U.S. blockade of the Persian Gulf.
The site was also used by Hamas for the manufacture of explosive devices.