The reason Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer the prime minister of Israel today has much to do with the Democratic Party, whose recent drift toward anti-Israel positions has become a major and imminent threat to the security of the Jewish state.
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, confirmed Naftali Bennett as the country’s new prime minister on Sunday evening, at the head of a narrow majority coalition of small parties that has replaced Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time in 12 years.
Netanyahu recounted his government’s achievements — economic, technological, military, and diplomatic — in what was likely the last speech of his term as prime minister.
Naftali Bennett, the likely incoming prime minister of Israel, addressed Israel’s Knesset on Sunday afternoon and thanked the U.S. for its support during the recent war with Hamas, but also stressed Israel’s opposition to the Iran nuclear deal.
Naftali Bennett is set to become Israel’s 36th prime minister on Sunday, completing a feat of political daring and audacity that saw him convert 6% of the vote — seven seats in Israel’s 120-seat Knesset — into a path to the country’s leadership.
Israel’s new government is facing a crisis of legitimacy as a prime minister whose party won only 6% of the vote is set to take the reins of government, while the party that won the most votes is being pushed out of office and into opposition.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday slammed the new emerging coalition that will unseat him from power as “dangerous and leftwing,” and accused his political rival Naftali Bennett, who will succeed him as prime minister, of “selling out.”
Like Margaret Thatcher, Benjamin Netanyahu is being brought down by rivals on the right after over a decade of astonishing success.
The Islamist Ra’am party is set to join a new Israeli government under a deal reached by Israel’s opposition parties to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening, potentially confounding anti-Israel critics.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s former aide, Naftali Bennett, is on track to replace him as prime minister after Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid announced the formation of a unity government on Wednesday.
Right-wing party leader Naftali Bennett announced he plans to join Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid in a unity government that will unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after 12 years in office and see a motley coalition formed between right-wing, centrist and leftist parties.
Naftali Bennett, the leader of the right-wing Yamina party in Israel, faces possible defections from his ranks as he tries to participate in a left-dominated coalition to replace incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the next 48 hours.
Conservative Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett has backed out of an opposition coalition to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, citing massive unrest between the country’s Jewish and Arab communities.
Only 24% of Israeli voters who chose “right-wing” leader Naftali Bennett and his Yamina (“Rightwards”) party approve of the idea of Bennett joining a left-wing “change” coalition to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from government.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s prospects of forming a government remained bleak as the last of the votes of Tuesday’s election — the fourth in two years — were counted on Thursday, leaving the chances for a fifth election open.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s prospects of forming a government took a turn for the worse Wednesday as evolving election results defied exit polls, leaving the Israeli premier’s Likud party with no choice but to seek support from the Arab-Islamist Ra’am in order to gain the majority needed.
The Israeli Right gained more support following last week’s U.S. election, according to a Panels Research poll taken for The Jerusalem Post and its Hebrew-language Maariv sister publication on Thursday.
TEL AVIV – Iran’s foiled cyberattack on Israel’s water system sought to increase residential area chlorine levels, a Western intelligence official has told the Financial Times, adding the attack was “close to successful.”
TEL AVIV – Iran is building a new weapons storage facility in eastern Syria at a military base near the Iraqi border, Fox News reported Wednesday citing a private Israeli intelligence firm.
TEL AVIV – Hundreds of people attended the funeral of an IDF soldier killed by a Palestinian rock thrower during a raid in the West Bank overnight Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Biological Research Institute has made a breakthrough development in isolating an antibody that neutralizes the Chinese coronavirus, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Defense Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday said the military had progressed from blocking Iran’s presence in Syria to moving it out entirely.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Defense Minister Naftali Bennett’s recent interview on live TV was interrupted by a gatecrasher in the form of his 8-year-old son. The perennially cool defense minister continues to answer the news anchor’s questions with aplomb, stopping only to kiss or caress the young interloper.
TEL AVIV – Syria accused Israel of an airstrike near Damascus in the early hours of Monday, killing four members of a pro-Iran militia and three civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
TEL AVIV – Israel announced Thursday it would begin easing coronavirus restrictions as a nationwide Passover curfew ended.
TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Naftali Bennett (Yamina) on Sunday pointed to the ultra-Orthodox and Arab sectors of Israeli society as being the “problem” in the spread of COVID-19, and called for his ministry to lead the fight against the virus instead of the Health Ministry.
Israeli’s defense minister Naftali Bennet posted a video to social media on Friday suggesting that the country’s long-term strategy should involved most of the population becoming infected with, and immune to, coronavirus while isolating the elderly.
Last week’s election in Israel resembles the Democrat Iowa caucuses given the absence of a clear winner, said Jeremy Saltan.
TEL AVIV – The Blue and White party on Wednesday confirmed it was working on getting a law passed that would prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as an indicted prime minister, from leading the country.
TEL AVIV – Israel and the U.S. will work together to combat Iranian terror in the Middle East, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said following a trip to the U.S., with the task being divvied up so that Jerusalem will work to curb Iran’s entrenchment in Syria while Washington will combat the Islamic Republic’s presence in Iraq.
JERUSALEM – The Blue and White party has come under fire for its latest ad campaign which has been denounced as “antisemitic” and full of “hate and incitement.”
TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday announced the formation of a special team for the annexation of West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley on the heels of President Donald Trump’s unveiled peace plan which calls for Israeli law to be applied throughout those territories.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Defense Ministry has made a “technological breakthrough” on a laser beam defense system capable of intercepting rockets, drones and anti-tank missiles, it announced Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – Two IDF soldiers who completed a course in the armored corps petitioned the Supreme Court on Thursday demanding the right for women to serve as tank crew members.
JERUSALEM – Israel on Sunday said it would withhold tens of millions of dollars worth of taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority over Ramallah’s so-called “pay-for-slay” program, in which stipends are paid to terrorists and their families.
Israeli leaders on Wednesday morning issued fresh threats to Iran after the military conducted overnight airstrikes on the Islamic Republic’s Quds Force in Syria, with the defense minister saying even Tehran’s leaders were “not immune.”
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday appointed Amir Ohana to replace Ayelet Shaked as justice minister, making him the first openly gay cabinet minister. Shaked was fired by Netanyahu earlier this week after she and former education
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday fired ministers Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett, leaders of the New Right party that failed to cross the electoral threshold in the April 9 elections.
TEL AVIV – The pro-cannabis, right-wing leader of the Zehut party, Moshe Feiglin, said he met with New Right leader Naftali Bennett to discuss possibly joining forces in the upcoming elections. Despite promising campaigns, both parties failed to make it
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the “abhorrent” shooting attack in a Poway, California Chabad synagogue on Saturday that killed one woman and wounded three others.
