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Likud demands recount after final results published

Likud demands recount after final results published

Netanyahu’s bloc stays at 58 seats.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party demanded a recount of Monday’s election and to check every polling station’s… Read More ›

Politics in a time of pandemic

Politics in a time of pandemic

Opinion: Only by trusting one another and the mechanisms of the state can we protect ourselves and our children from coronavirus; the country’s leaders should… Read More ›

Maccabi Tel Aviv plays in front of fans after Spain trip, violating virus rules

Maccabi Tel Aviv plays in front of fans after Spain trip, violating virus rules

Basketball team takes to court with hundreds watching; claims Health Ministry didn’t say couldn’t play after returning 10 days ago from Spain which is under… Read More ›

Up to 80,000 Israelis Currently Quarantined Over Possible Coronavirus Exposure

Up to 80,000 Israelis Currently Quarantined Over Possible Coronavirus Exposure

  JERUSALEM (JTA) — Between 50,000 and 80,000 Israelis are currently in home quarantine due to potential exposure to the coronavirus as the country tries… Read More ›

Liberman gives majority to anti-Netanyahu bill

Liberman gives majority to anti-Netanyahu bill

The Yisrael Beytenu leader’s endorsement gave the bill a majority, now with the support of all 62 MKs who are not in Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc.… Read More ›

Polls apart: Likud boosted turnout where it needed to, as Blue and White stalled

Polls apart: Likud boosted turnout where it needed to, as Blue and White stalled

Results highlight geographical polarization, with some parts of the country giving a clear lead to PM’s party and others opting, albeit underwhelmingly, for its centrist… Read More ›

Coronavirus spreads across Israel: Patients 13, 14, 15 diagnosed

Coronavirus spreads across Israel: Patients 13, 14, 15 diagnosed

The new patients include a high school student, a principal and a young man who recently returned from Italy.   Israelis who had been in… Read More ›

With 99% of votes counted, Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc slumps to 58 seats

With 99% of votes counted, Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc slumps to 58 seats

The bloc is 3 seats short of gaining 120 Knesset majority needed to form coalition government; Blue & White appears to have gained a seat… Read More ›

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 ›