Politics and Knesset
With both Israel’s right- and left-wing blocs having been unable to secure a coalition following the April election, the Arab parties could represent a significant boost to the left in September should they break their longstanding tradition of remaining outside the government.
Even in round two, neither party has enough support for the 61-mandate majority necessary to form a government. Does it mean that Israel could be headed to a third election cycle, or will some other option emerge?
“We must keep the State of Israel above political disputes and make every effort to ensure that support for Israel does not become a political issue,” said Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
The court is also planning to consider whether or not to ban Otzma Yehudit candidates from running in the September election.
In a special interview, Labor Party leader Amir Peretz defends his decision to join forces with Gesher, criticizes the Blue and White Party, and appeals to frustrated Labor supporters to come back to their political home.
A representative from Avigdor Lieberman’s party stated that the sharing agreement is “a technical issue only.”
The group includes 41 future lone soldiers, 103 children, three sets of twins and a 28-day-old baby.
Lily Daroff and Nechama Miller were among 242 others who just landed in Israel, part of the latest Nefesh B’Nefesh summer charter flight in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, the Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemet LeIsrael and Jewish National Fund-USA.
In one case, a party member who had made no public Facebook comments about Israel before Corbyn’s leadership began is now posting more than 300 times per year on the topic, including a claim that “Zionists ... bankrolled Hitler before and throughout WW2.”
Likud’s top 40 candidates for Sept. 17 election sign declaration backing party leader Benjamin Netanyahu as their candidate for prime minister, while pointing out that leaders of parties not chosen by the people via primaries “are the last ones who should be criticizing Likud.”
After Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman suggested that Benjamin Netanyahu be removed as head of the Likud should he fail to form a coalition, party members drew up a pledge of support for Likud Knesset members and candidates to sign.
The pictures show the leader of the British Labour Party walking in a 2009 march in Birmingham, England, where protesters held banners that described the Jewish state as “child killers” and “thirsty for blood,” while calling for a boycott of the Jewish state.
