Politics and Knesset
Minister of Aliyah and Integration Pnina Tamano-Shata was honored for her work in the struggle for social equality and against injustices for disadvantaged communities with a focus on the Ethiopian community.
Event organizers accuse police of “capitulating to terrorism” • Far-right MK Itamar Ben-Gvir calls on lawmakers to use parliamentary immunity to defy police orders.
Yamina leader Naftali Bennett blasts “violent machine” targeting opposition lawmakers, tells Netanyahu to “let go, let the country move forward.”
Yamina and New Hope leaders are “dangerous,” as they have burned all their bridges by “deceiving” everyone that voted for them, says Likud lawmaker May Golan.
Israel’s emerging coalition is the “biggest election deceit in Israeli history,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Citing a spike in extremism online, Nadav Argaman calls on elected officials, religious leaders, educators and opinion leaders to help restore calm.
The initiative, which lacked the necessary support within the coalition-in-formation, comes on the heels of Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid’s announcement of his ability to form the next government.
Yesh Atid presents the Knesset Secretariat with the signatures of 61 lawmakers, looking to have a new government sworn in by next week.
The agreement between the two countries will help “provide certainty and favorable conditions for business activity, and will strengthen economic ties,” said Israel’s Finance Minister Israel Katz.
“Whoever fooled us and betrayed us has lost our trust forever,” says Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu.
“The judiciary is an island of stability in this time of great upheaval, although unfortunately there are those who have set themselves the goal of harming and weakening it,” says Chief Justice Esther Hayut.
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.”
