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Benny Gantz, center, and Benjamin Netanyahu, right, at the Knesset on November 10, 2020. (Shmulik Grossman/Knesset spokesperson)
Blue and White minister: ‘Good chance’ we’ll vote to dissolve Knesset next week
By TOI staff
Second minister in Gantz’s party also confirms they’re weighing voting in favor of opposition’s no-confidence motion on Wednesday, which would topple coalition and trigger election
Benny Gantz, center, and Benjamin Netanyahu, right, at the Knesset on November 10, 2020. (Shmulik Grossman/Knesset spokesperson)
November 26, 2020, 7:05 pm
Blue and White minister: ‘Good chance’ we’ll vote to dissolve Knesset next week
Second minister in Gantz’s party also confirms they’re weighing voting in favor of opposition’s no-confidence motion on Wednesday, which would topple coalition and trigger election
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset, December 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 25, 2020, 7:36 pm
Yamina will back bid to disband Knesset, its MK Shaked says
Ex-justice minister says coalition run by ‘failing parties’; bill would also need Blue and White’s backing; Yamina continues to trade fire with Netanyahu’s Likud as elections near
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks as then-defense minister Naftali Bennett and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri confer, during a meeting of right-wing party leaders at the Knesset following election day, on March 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 24, 2020, 11:13 pm
Amid election buzz, polls give Likud the most seats, with Yamina at its heels
Netanyahu’s party still in lead — and widening advantage, according to one survey — as Gantz indicates he’s holding out hope government can be saved and early elections avoided
By Raoul Wootliff
Transportation Miri Regev and her predecessor Bezalel Smotrich at a ministerial handover ceremony at the Transportation Ministry in Jerusalem on May 18 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 22, 2020, 12:17 am
Netanyahu ally blasts Yamina, calls MK ‘racist and homophobic’
Miri Regev goes after Bezalel Smotrich as his right-wing party eats into Likud’s support in the polls; hitting back, Yamina accuses her of doling out jobs to cronies
By TOI staff
Then-education minister Naftali Bennett arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting in the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, on June 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 18, 2020, 10:07 am
Despite soaring poll numbers, Bennett appears unlikely to unseat Netanyahu
As talk of elections ramps up, Yamina leader’s growing popularity is drawing attention. But is he a real contender for the throne, or just a way to express frustration with the PM?
By Haviv Rettig Gur
US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk to a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 27, 2020. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
November 17, 2020, 8:51 pm
As Bennett rises in polls, Netanyahu attacks: ‘Don’t know if he’s left or right’
With Yamina leader panning his handling of pandemic, prime minister questions Bennett’s support for a no-confidence motion also backed by Joint List
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Then-defense minister Naftali Bennett of Yamina, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting of right-wing parties, on March 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 14, 2020, 11:31 pm
Netanyahu heard calling Bennett ‘a little dog’ in 2018 recording
PM also heard agreeing with then-aide Nir Hefetz that his right-wing political rival is ‘a fool’; Yamina leader in response: ‘It is time for a new leadership for Israel’
By TOI staff
Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett (right) and Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White party (composite image: Flash90)
November 8, 2020, 2:31 pm
Report: Gantz, Bennett meet to discuss triggering early elections
After Likud ignores Blue and White’s October ultimatum to pass a state budget, frustrated party leaders said to sit with various opposition figures on options moving forward
By TOI staff
Yamina leader Naftali Bennett speaks during a Knesset plenary session in Jerusalem on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)
November 2, 2020, 12:55 pm
Yamina will vote for bill to dissolve Knesset, in challenge to Blue and White
Bennett’s party accuses Gantz’s of not heeding its own ultimatum that new elections must be held over failure to pass state budget
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with then Education Minister Naftali Bennett during a plenum session in the Knesset, on December 5, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 1, 2020, 11:45 pm
Likud regains some ground, increases lead over Yamina in poll
Survey gives PM’s party 29 seats, with Bennett’s Orthodox-nationalists getting 27, though 54% say they are dissatisfied with Netanyahu’s handling of coronavirus
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen next to Transportation Minister Israel Katz at the weekly cabinet meeting at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on September 4, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 30, 2020, 10:13 am
PM spars with Katz after finance minister tweets criticism from cabinet meeting
Netanyahu reportedly says those who castigate ‘should not be members of the government’ after Treasury chief publicly slams delay to opening street stores
By TOI staff
People walk on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on October 28, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
October 29, 2020, 10:08 pm
As cabinet meets, ministers undecided on lifting lockdown for street stores
Finance minister urges this Sunday as start day; Netanyahu reportedly says target is November 15, but will be brought forward by a week if daily cases drop below 500
By TOI staff
Blue and White Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn, left, speaks at the Knesset plenum as coalition whip Miki Zohar (Likud) looks on, on October 28, 2020. (Shmulik Grossman/Knesset)
October 28, 2020, 5:04 pm
Knesset shoots down pro-LGBT bill to require gender-neutral terms for parents
Blue and White pilloried for failing to back legislation that would have replaced language on official forms with ‘parent’ instead of ‘mother’ or ‘father’
By TOI staff
Yesh Atid MK Yair Lapid speaks during a Knesset plenum session on August 24, 2020. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool/Flash90)
October 26, 2020, 9:29 pm
Opposition chief to file bill next week to dissolve Knesset, call new elections
MKs in Yamina refrain from voting on measures that would replace Netanyahu with Lapid or Bennett as PM, after taking heat from Likud for recently backing similar proposal
By TOI staff
Yamina Party chairman Naftali Bennett at a press conference in Jerusalem, on May 14, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 24, 2020, 10:51 pm
Yamina says elections needed — and Naftali Bennett should be next PM
Though rejecting opposition’s reported bid for alternative coalition, right-wing party offends Netanyahu’s Likud by comparing his government to a ‘treif’ — an unkosher animal
By TOI staff
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