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Topic: coalition negotiation

March 17, 2013
11:40 am

Marina Solodkin visiting residents of Beit Yehonatan in October 2010. Solodkin passed away on Saturday at the age of 61 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

A-governing we will go!

A coalition has finally been formed and the papers all ponder: What now?

By Yossi Nachemi

March 15, 2013
4:44 pm

Not happy together? Likud sources are complaining that Israel Beytenu has too much influence. In this photo, Netanyahu and Liberman arrive on Thursday to a Knesset for a party meeting (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Stone-throwing terror and coalition grumbles

Attack in the West Bank seriously injures a toddler; while in Jerusalem Likud members stew over the nascent government

By Yossi Nachemi

March 10, 2013
12:37 pm

Border police enter the Temple Mount on March 8 to quell a riot there. The riot marked the first time that Molotov cocktails were used at the holy site (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bibi’s got backing

Barring any last-minute surprises, a coalition is just about in place

By Yossi Nachemi

March 8, 2013
1:25 pm

Illustrative photo of doctors in Nazareth. Israel is looking to Europe to fill a doctor shortage (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Countdown to coalition

A new government is near…ish; worries on the Syrian border; and is there a doctor in the state?

By Yossi Nachemi

March 1, 2013
11:17 am

Police inspect the remnants of a car bomb that killed two people yesterday in Rishon Lezion. A dozen people have been killed over the past two years in a mob war in the cities south of Tel Aviv (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/ Flash90)

Two weeks’ notice

Time is ticking away for Netanyahu to form a coalition, and the EU wants to label settlement goods

By Yossi Nachemi

February 27, 2013
1:05 am

Towards a coalition of values

For the sake of Israel and the Jewish people the next government must be founded on peace, contribution and dignity of man

By Mick Davis

February 26, 2013
12:47 pm

Jewish Party leader Naftali Bennett with party member Nissan Slomiansky on February 20. Bennett hired a private investigator to look into Slomiansky's successful primary finish (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cleaning house

Scandal rocks the Jewish Home party; optimism in the West Bank; and a possible breakthrough for coalition talks?

By Yossi Nachemi

February 24, 2013
10:27 am

Want to join them? Maariv reports on a new donation program that allows tourists to visit IDF bases and eat with the soldiers. These soldiers prepare a meal while at an observation post by the Dead Sea in 2012 (photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Not-so-quiet riot

Hunger strikes, upheavals, and possible settler violence against Palestinians raise worries of a third intifada starting

By Yossi Nachemi

February 21, 2013
1:16 am

Tzipi Livni did the right thing

Hatnua’s participation in the government offers hope for progress towards peace

By Liam Hoare

February 19, 2013
12:19 pm

Obama and Peres toasting at the ceremony where Obama presented Peres the Presidential Medal of Freedom in June. Peres will return the favor when Obama visits Israel in March (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO/Flash90)

Sa’argate

Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar is accused of misdeeds, but the papers are still really interested in ‘Prisoner X’

By Yossi Nachemi

February 13, 2013
8:46 pm

Israel’s Islamist dilemma

Upheavals in the Arab world reveal a shared regional interest in maintaining stability

By Ofer Zalzberg and Robert Blecher

January 23, 2013
1:48 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud-Beytenu No. 2 Avigdor Liberman wave to supporters after the exit polls in the general elections were announced Tuesday night. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Likud is hurting; Netanyahu, rather less

Yesh Atid’s ascendance gives the prime minister a fateful choice, which he might relish

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: coalition negotiation

A-governing we will go!

A coalition has finally been formed and the papers all ponder: What now?

Stone-throwing terror and coalition grumbles

Attack in the West Bank seriously injures a toddler; while in Jerusalem Likud members stew over the nascent government

Bibi’s got backing

Barring any last-minute surprises, a coalition is just about in place

Countdown to coalition

A new government is near…ish; worries on the Syrian border; and is there a doctor in the state?

Two weeks’ notice

Time is ticking away for Netanyahu to form a coalition, and the EU wants to label settlement goods

Towards a coalition of values

For the sake of Israel and the Jewish people the next government must be founded on peace, contribution and dignity of man

Cleaning house

Scandal rocks the Jewish Home party; optimism in the West Bank; and a possible breakthrough for coalition talks?

Not-so-quiet riot

Hunger strikes, upheavals, and possible settler violence against Palestinians raise worries of a third intifada starting

Tzipi Livni did the right thing

Hatnua’s participation in the government offers hope for progress towards peace

Sa’argate

Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar is accused of misdeeds, but the papers are still really interested in ‘Prisoner X’

Israel’s Islamist dilemma

Upheavals in the Arab world reveal a shared regional interest in maintaining stability

Likud is hurting; Netanyahu, rather less

Yesh Atid’s ascendance gives the prime minister a fateful choice, which he might relish

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