Politics and Knesset
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Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan: “It is sad and shameful that those who were appointed to represent Israel” are supporting the “anti-Semitic” BDS movement.
The split in the right-wing bloc prior to April’s elections contributed to the coalition failure, as Ayelet Shaked’s newly formed New Right Party failed to cross the electoral threshold, gifting several Knesset mandates to Israel’s left.
Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis tells Israel Radio that under the Likud Party, Israel has always been a Jewish, democratic state—and will remain one.
Former chief rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces’ Rafi Peretz insists that he “does not support” such therapy and claims that his remarks were misrepresented in a way that “deepens the rift in Israeli society.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Rafi Peretz’s remarks are “unacceptable and do not reflect the position of the government”; Meretz leader calls former IDF chief rabbi a “minister of darkness.”
The BBC profiled the anti-Semitism problem in the Labour Party in its TV program “Panorama.”
The man expected to become Britain’s next prime minister responds to the Iranian threat, BDS and anti-Semitism with the Labour Party.
Since the 2017 implementation of the law, which aims to prevent migrants from sending money out of the country, the number of migrants voluntarily leaving has increased by 57 percent.
More than 28,000 new immigrants arrived in Israel last year, with two-thirds coming from former Soviet countries. New immigrants tend to prefer big cities, with Tel Aviv being the top pick.
David Triesman, who also resigned as the whip in the House of Lords, remarked, “It [is] time to recognize the reality. I always said it was worth hanging on to fight so long as there was a prospect of winning. I now don’t believe with this leadership there is.”
While many in Israel bemoan the financial burden of the new elections this fall, the major cost to the country will likely lie in other realms.
