TEL AVIV – Members of Knesset in the ruling Likud party described police recommendations that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted for a series of corruption charges a “coup” designed by the prime minister’s opponents, while leaders of the opposition are calling for Netanyahu’s immediate resignation in the wake of Tuesday’s police statement.
The Israeli police investigation against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows remarkable similarities with the Special Counsel probe against President Donald Trump in the United States.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a double-digit lead over his top potential challengers in a new Israeli general election, according to a poll released Monday.
TEL AVIV – Head of the centrist Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid on Wednesday called on Israel to deport the vast majority of illegal migrants from Africa and allow only the “small group of actual refugees” to stay.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday slammed the latest “absurd” resolution passed by the UN’s cultural agency calling Israeli presence in Jerusalem “illegal,” and ordered that funds to the international body be cut again by another $1 million.
TEL AVIV – The New York Times was roundly condemned for publishing an op-ed by Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti but failing to mention that that author is a terror mastermind who was convicted of planning multiple attacks against Israelis.
JERUSALEM, Israel — U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a Tomahawk missile attack against a Syrian airbase last week received praise from Israeli politicians from across the political spectrum.
TEL AVIV – Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid called Saturday for Israel to make the Palestinians “disappear” by building a “high wall,” and added that he is the only viable alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
TEL AVIV – The accusations that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not deal with the threat of Hamas’ terror tunnels prior to the 2014 summer conflict are baseless, his office said late Tuesday.
Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid bashed opposition leader Isaac Herzog on Monday for allegedly offering the West Bank and East Jerusalem to the Palestinians in secret talks with PA President Mahmoud Abbas in 2014-2015, calling the move “dangerous and wrong.”
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid on Monday accused the United Nations of becoming a “collaborator of Islamic fundamentalism,” saying that the body facilitated aid that reaches “agents of terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah.”
TEL AVIV – Israeli lawmakers opened the Knesset this week by expressing their condolences to the victims of the attacks in Orlando and Tel Aviv and equating the two instances of terror.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lambasted a UNESCO resolution that ignores any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount.
The Jerusalem Post reports: A prominent member of the Knesset on Saturday strongly criticized a resolution passed by UNESCO’s Executive Board the previous day, saying if the motion was not overturned it would “lead to the deaths of innocent people”.
The Jerusalem Post reports: If elections were held today, the Likud would lose a number of Knesset seats but still maintain a plurality in parliament while Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid faction becomes the second-largest party in the legislature, according to
The Jerusalem Post reports: Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid and Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman – two men who could have been foreign minister had either joined the government – slammed the country’s foreign policy at a joint meeting in the Knesset
Ynetnews reports: A poll ordered by Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu party shows that MK Yair Lapid’s (pictured) party Yesh Atid is garnering more and more support, while the Likud party is losing its power. According to the poll, conducted three weeks ago,
TEL AVIV – Yesh Atid chairman and Member of Knesset Yair Lapid declared on Monday that he will be running for prime minister in the next elections, and said that he will lead Israel to peace by calling for a
