National Unity MK Pnina Tamano-Shata submitted a bill to dissolve the 25th Knesset, according to party officials on Thursday. This was done as part of Benny Gantz’s plan to have elections with broad consensus by October. 1 \ I will start from the bottom line: Israel isn’t going for an early election (for now). The … Read more
If an election were held today, Benny Gantz’s National Unity Party would still win the most seats. Still, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party is closing the gap, according to a new Channel 12 poll published Wednesday night. The poll also claimed that, for the first time since the war with Hamas began, Netanyahu … Read more
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and minister-without-portfolio Benny Gantz expressed outrage at the government’s handling of efforts to approve a law regulating the conscription of Haredim on Monday, according to Israeli media. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to promote a version of a conscription law promoted by Gantz in the previous government in … Read more
Israel has been waging war in Gaza since Hamas militants killed around 1,200 Israelis and took another 250 hostage on Oct. 7 last year. Israeli strikes in the Palestinian controlled region have killed at least 35,000 people, according to figures from the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza which provides separate casualty figures for combatants and … Read more
Minister-without-portfolio MK Benny Gantz on Saturday night set June 8 as a deadline for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to launch a comprehensive plan for the ‘day after’ Hamas in Gaza, a plan that includes freeing the Israeli hostages, installing a civil governing body comprised of both international and Palestinian actors, and enabling evacuees from … Read more
Gantz, a former Israel Defense Forces general, has called for a six-point plan that includes demilitarization of Gaza, returning Israeli hostages and establishing multinational governance over the area, home to more than half a million Palestinians. Netanyahu said Gantz’s demands amounted to nothing more than “washed up words” that would mean “defeat for Israel.” The … Read more
As the Knesset summer session opens, protest organizations called on Israelis to take to the streets Monday, and demand a new government as part of a national protest day. Protesters will drive in convoys around the country Monday morning, slowing traffic by driving at the lowest speed allowed by law. There will also be … Read more
In a move likely to increase the already high political tension at the highest levels of Israel’s government, Minister-without-portfolio Benny Gantz gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a deadline until June 8 to agree to a comprehensive strategic plan for the ‘day after’ Hamas in Gaza, and threatened to leave the government if this did … Read more
Amid the intensified IDF ground operation in Rafah and the northern Gaza Strip, continued sporadic firing at the Gaza border area, frozen hostage negotiations, the heated debate over the day after in the Gaza Strip, the worsening of the situation in the north, the events of Remembrance Day for the Israeli fallen soldiers and … Read more
Israel’s ministerial committee on legislation approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to continue legislating an ultra-Orthodox (haredi) IDF conscription bill from where it was left off in 2022, ignoring a legal opinion by the Attorney General that the proposal was irrelevant and, therefore, “not legally justifiable.” The decision by committee chair Justice Minister Yariv … Read more
