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Analysis: Likud has beaten Blue and White, but Netanyahu’s options hinge on final count

Analysis: Likud has beaten Blue and White, but Netanyahu’s options hinge on final count

In Israel’s multi-party system, there’s a world of difference between the prime minister winning the backing of 61, 60 or 59 of the Knesset’s 120… Read More ›

Time to go from promises to compromises – analysis

Time to go from promises to compromises – analysis

Strangely enough, the problem in Israel over the past year has not been that politicians have lied. It has been that they have been telling… Read More ›

Exit polls: 59 seats to Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc

Exit polls: 59 seats to Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc

Highest turnout in 21 years appears to have worked in Netanyahu’s favor as he claims right to form government; all three exit polls predict Gantz’s… Read More ›

Gantz tells faithful to wait for final results after exit polls show Likud gains

Gantz tells faithful to wait for final results after exit polls show Likud gains

Blue and White leader says final figures could be like last April’s, when Netanyahu could not form coalition, vows he’ll ‘continue to fight’   Blue… Read More ›

STUNNING DEVELOPMENT: Rabbi Aharon Feldman Retracts His Opposition To Voting In WZO Elections

STUNNING DEVELOPMENT: Rabbi Aharon Feldman Retracts His Opposition To Voting In WZO Elections

  BALTIMORE — There has been a major development in the ongoing saga of the WZO election debate. VINnews can confirm that little to no… Read More ›

Israelis go to polls for third time in a year

Israelis go to polls for third time in a year

Both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz predicted victory at political events on Sunday.   Israelis will get an opportunity… Read More ›

Endless elections leave Israel unable to make crucial decisions

Endless elections leave Israel unable to make crucial decisions

Analysis: The political stalemate and a caretaker government have brought a struggling health system to the brink, low-income pensioners to see their meager income shrink… Read More ›

Netanyahu slams Bernie Sanders’ AIPAC ‘bigots’ jab as ‘libelous’

Netanyahu slams Bernie Sanders’ AIPAC ‘bigots’ jab as ‘libelous’

Prime Minister castigates Democratic frontrunner without naming him, tells pro-Israel lobby confab he will annex West Bank settlements, but willing to negotiate with Palestinians  … Read More ›

Israel’s enemies are not waiting until a prime minister is chosen

Israel’s enemies are not waiting until a prime minister is chosen

The IDF has no budget for it’s Momentum multi-year plan. Get it together Israel.   They say third time’s the charm. As Israel heads to… Read More ›

Sex-pest rabbi indicted for defrauding terminally ill followers

Sex-pest rabbi indicted for defrauding terminally ill followers

The 16-article indictment says Eliezer Berland along with his aides promised his desperate worshippers he will cure them of diseases such as cancer and bring… Read More ›

Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar to address AIPAC by video after organization departs from 2016 rules

Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar to address AIPAC by video after organization departs from 2016 rules

  WASHINGTON (JTA) – Two more Democratic presidential candidates are now on the speakers’ list at this year’s AIPAC conference, after the Israel lobby group… Read More ›

Israeli scientists: ‘In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine’

Israeli scientists: ‘In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine’

Once the vaccine is developed, it will take at least 90 days to complete the regulatory process and potentially more to enter the marketplace.  … Read More ›

Israelis arriving from Italy move freely at airport, take public transport

Israelis arriving from Italy move freely at airport, take public transport

Many Israeli nationals returning from abroad, who were ordered to self-quarantine upon arrival, say they’re amazed there was no one at Ben Gurion Airport to… Read More ›

Israeli helicopters said to attack Syrian army posts along border

Israeli helicopters said to attack Syrian army posts along border

Three Syrian troops injured in missile strikes, Syrian state news says, hours after reporting on deadly drone attack in same area   Israeli aircraft attacked… Read More ›

Israel Taxi App Sued For Alleged Discrimination Against Arab Drivers

Israel Taxi App Sued For Alleged Discrimination Against Arab Drivers

  JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli taxi service app is being sued by human rights lawyers in Jerusalem over its feature that allows riders to… Read More ›

Naftali Bennett signs order to seize funds transferred from Iran to Hamas

Naftali Bennett signs order to seize funds transferred from Iran to Hamas

Israel’s Defense Minister Naftali Bennett signed an order Thursday to seize some $4 million in funds transferred from Iran to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.… Read More ›

The willful ignorance of lawmakers

The willful ignorance of lawmakers

Opinion: A Likud MK recently suggested that factory workers who have lost their jobs can earn thousands of shekels a month washing dishes in Tel… Read More ›

Israeli returning from Italy has coronavirus; visitors from there to be barred

Israeli returning from Italy has coronavirus; visitors from there to be barred

As first case in Israel outside of quarantine confirmed, interior minister says he will add Italy to list of countries from which travel is blocked… Read More ›

First Israeli recovered from coronavirus, returns home from Japan

First Israeli recovered from coronavirus, returns home from Japan

“I met my family members at the airport and we cried tears of joy.”   Rachel Biton, the Israeli who recovered from the coronavirus in… Read More ›

Netanyahu still ‘King Bibi’ on Israel’s margins

Netanyahu still ‘King Bibi’ on Israel’s margins

Even after two inconclusive elections and despite ongoing legal tribulations, the veteran leader remains the champion of the lower middle classes At Ramla market, on… Read More ›