Israeli Politics and Knesset
The Israeli premier, invoking the lessons of the Temple’s destruction, says he will seek to form a broad unity government after the election.
“We must all be wise, careful, and responsible in the content we consume, and even more so in the content we distribute,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said.
Nationalist figures tell JNS that the upcoming ballot represents a broader struggle between conservative and progressive values.
IDF reservists’ rights, highway safety among the causes championed by the Likud legislator.
“There is no meaning to an order that repeals a law or ‘suspends’ a law. There is no legal source of authority for such an action,” said Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi.
“I think we need to invest in Israel’s Arab society—in education, employment and infrastructure. If we don’t, we’ll be the ones who suffer,” the lawmaker told JNS.
With the principal blocs separated by a handful of seats in most polls, the campaign could be decided less by movement between Netanyahu’s Likud and Eisenkot’s Yashar than by which smaller parties survive the 3.25% electoral threshold.
Yesha Council Chairman Yisrael Ganz said the suspect is a “Jewish left-wing anarchist.”
“These heroes fought for us — and we will fight for them,” said coalition chairman Ofir Katz.
Israeli legislators observed a minute of silence to salute one of the Jewish state’s most outspoken supporters in Congress.
The law negates the binding nature of legal opinions and grants the government the authority to represent its own position in court even if it differs from that of the AG.
The Arab Israeli party previously expressed support for the killer, who murdered an IDF soldier in 1980.
