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Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich gives a speech at the Yamina electoral alliance's campaign launch, in Ramat Gan, on August 12, 2019. (Flash90)
August 12, 2019, 10:34 pm
Facing firing, Smotrich apologizes to Netanyahu for calling him ‘weak’
Transportation minister says his criticism was inappropriate as Likud warns it’s his last chance; re-branding United Right as Yamina, Shaked says she’s seeking to be PM
By Alexander Fulbright
Amir Peretz (R) walks by Naftali Bennett during a Knesset plenum session on January 21, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 12, 2019, 5:00 pm
Bennett says Labor chief’s economic plan will turn Israel into Venezuela
Amir Peretz calls United Right member a ‘hilltop youth’ for decrying his proposals as ‘extreme socialism’
By Alexander Fulbright
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, July 7, 2019. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)
August 9, 2019, 5:36 pm
Netanyahu grumbles over insufficient support for him on right
In comments aimed at United Right, PM claims other right-wing figures ‘stuttering’ on whether to recommend him for another term; Shaked: Likud wants Gantz, so don’t preach to us
By Alexander Fulbright
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud MK David Bitan (R) at a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on June 12, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 8, 2019, 6:34 pm
Likud MK says Netanyahu wants Gantz in next government, but not Lapid
David Bitan confirms report that ruling party will seek to bring Blue and White chief into a right-wing government after elections
By Alexander Fulbright
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a televised statement at his official residence in Jerusalem on March 17, 2015. The poster behind him reads: "It us or them. Only Likud, Only Netanyahu." (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 4, 2019, 4:39 pm
Top 40 Likud candidates sign pledge not to oust Netanyahu after elections
Opposition party mocks PM’s ‘paranoia’; initiator of loyalty pledge calls it ‘an answer to the libelous spin’ of Liberman, Blue and White
By Alexander Fulbright
Foreign Minister Israel Katz and his Bahraini counterpart Khalid bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa (R) pose for a photograph at the State Department in Washington on July 17, 2019. (Courtesy)
July 18, 2019, 10:19 pm
Israel, Bahrain foreign ministers talk Iran in groundbreaking public meet
Israel Katz and Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa pose for picture, discuss regional threats and bilateral ties; US envoy calls rare meeting ‘tremendous progress’
By Raphael Ahren and Alexander Fulbright
Then Memphis Grizzlies forward Omri Casspi in action during an NBA basketball game against the Philadelphia 76ers, December 2, 2018, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
July 14, 2019, 5:10 pm
Omri Casspi said set to return to Maccabi Tel Aviv after decade in NBA
Israeli basketball player reportedly agrees on contract terms with his old team, expected to sign 3-year deal in the coming days
By Alexander Fulbright
Then-economics minister Naftali Bennett visits a center in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak where religious men and women are trained in math, English and other core subjects not taught in ultra-Orthodox schools and seminaries, on April 2015, 2013. (Assaf Shilo/Economy Minister/Flash90)
June 18, 2019, 7:28 pm
Bennett floats alternative to ultra-Orthodox enlistment bill
New Right chief says that, rather than serve, seminary students should be encouraged to study, work at younger age; claims plan could prevent ‘economic collapse’
By Alexander Fulbright
IDF reserve soldiers seen getting food in a staging area near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on July 20, 2014, during Israel's Operation Protective Edge. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
June 15, 2019, 4:58 pm
Israeli soldier punished for putting dairy and meat in same fridge on base
Yisrael Beytenu MK denounces IDF decision to confine soldier to base for putting cheese and cold cuts on same shelf: ‘We’ll become the army for the defense of Jewish law’
By Alexander Fulbright
Meretz members Issawi Frej (L) and Mossi Raz attend a Memorial Day ceremony in Tel Aviv on April 17, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 12, 2019, 11:55 pm
Two Meretz members launch joint ‘Arab-Jewish leadership’ bid
MK Issawi Frej and ex-lawmaker Mossi Raz say run to be co-leaders of party aimed at ‘building a strong and influential Jewish-Arab left’
By Alexander Fulbright
Thousands of people take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 6, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 7, 2019, 3:20 pm
Tough love: 5 things to know for June 7
Heavy security and a rough welcome for Israel’s first LGBT minister dominate media coverage of Jerusalem’s Pride parade, while political jockeying also makes headlines
By Alexander Fulbright
Blue and White MK Omer Yankelevich poses for a photo with her family ahead of the swearing-in of the 21st Knesset on April 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
May 1, 2019, 8:32 pm
Blue and White accuses Likud of trying to lure away its MKs
Moshe Ya’alon calls report that Netanyahu confidant working to convince ultra-Orthodox lawmaker to defect for coalition a ‘moral low’
By Alexander Fulbright
Leaders of the Blue and White party, left to right, Gabi Ashkenazi, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and Moshe Ya'alon at a press conference at party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 10, 2019, a day after the elections. (Flash90)
April 10, 2019, 9:07 pm
Blue and White concedes race, vows to battle Netanyahu from opposition
Benny Gantz says ‘we respect the decision of the people,’ touts support from one million voters; Lapid says centrist alliance will ’embitter the government’s life’
By Alexander Fulbright
President Reuven Rivlin speaks with the press after casting his ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem, during elections for the Knesset, on April 9, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 10, 2019, 4:41 pm
Rivlin to meet next week with party chiefs on naming next PM — on air
With right-wing bloc poised to finish with clear majority, Netanyahu sure to get first shot at building a coalition; president’s office says talks will be broadcast live
By Alexander Fulbright
Bride Tsufit Lam casts her ballot at a voting station in the West Bank settlement of Elazar during Knesset elections, on April 9, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
April 9, 2019, 2:12 pm
Do or die: 7 things to know for April 9
Israelis vote following an election campaign viewed by many as one of the country’s ugliest, but it only may have only been a preview of what is to come in coalition negotiations
By Alexander Fulbright
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