Israel refused to let a jailed Palestinian senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group attend her daughter’s funeral on Tuesday, sparking outrage from leftwing groups as well as Arab Israeli lawmakers in the Knesset.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party gained almost 30 percent of the votes tallied so far by Tuesday afternoon, indicating a major victory that well surpasses its results in the previous two Israel elections.
Benny Gantz’s Blue and White centrist party has opened a two-seat lead over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, according to updated voting results Thursday morning from the Central Election Committee.
The Palestinian Authority is allegedly actively encouraging Israeli-Arab voters to turn out in today’s Israel election.
TEL AVIV – In a dramatic departure from the party’s traditional position, Labor chief Avi Gabbay said that any deal with the Palestinians he would be involved in would not include evacuating West Bank settlements.
An Arab-Israeli former lawmaker entered prison Sunday to begin a two-year sentence after he pleaded guilty to smuggling mobile phones to Palestinian detainees, a prisons spokeswoman said.
Israeli police said Thursday they arrested an Arab lawmaker whose immunity has been lifted after he was suspected of secretly giving cellphones to two Palestinian high security prisoners.
TEL AVIV – Following the Knesset’s initial approval of the “muezzin bill,” a piece of legislation prohibiting loud noise at places of worship, a Druze Israeli-Arab came out in support of the bill, saying that mosque muezzin speakers disturbs the Arab and Muslim public as well.
TEL AVIV – More than 20 senior officials from the Arab-Israeli party Balad were arrested Sunday on suspicion of the illegal transfer of millions of shekels in donations to the party’s coffers.
TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is working to oust Arab Knesset Member Haneen Zoabi after the latter caused bedlam in the Knesset by calling Israeli soldiers “murderers.”
TEL AVIV – MK Dov Khenin’s claim on Sunday that Israel is “ethnically cleansing Palestinians” in areas of the West Bank has sparked outrage among Israeli lawmakers.
TEL AVIV – Arab MK Haneen Zoabi called on Palestinians to revolt against the Palestinian Authority over its security cooperation with Israel, the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper reported Monday.