What will happen in Gaza “the day after?” Yisrael Beiteinu chairman and MK Avigdor Liberman posed this question during budget debates in the Knesset plenum on Wednesday. He claimed he “heard from an old friend in Washington” that war cabinet member and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer had made a commitment to Saudi Arabia … Read more
The renewed budget for 2024 passed into law on Wednesday, after weeks of debate in the Knesset Finance Committee. NIS 55 billion out of the extra funding will go to military purposes, and NIS 15.5 billion for civilian needs. The budget deficit is predicted to be 6.6%, as opposed to the original 2.5% in … Read more
Israel’s parliament (Knesset) will begin a 25-hour long debate on Tuesday over the government’s renewed 2024 budget, and vote on it on Wednesday afternoon, the Knesset House Committee announced on Monday. The committee enacted a special parliamentary procedure in order to limit the opposition’s ability to filibuster the vote, due to its criticism of … Read more
A sharp confrontation was recorded recently between Knesset member Merav Ben-Ari (Yesh Atid) and Knesset member Limor Son Har-Melech (Otzma Yehudit) during a discussion on the National Insurance Institute in the Knesset. The conflict stemmed from the topic of the termination of the National Insurance Institute’s assistance to the Michal Sela Forum, an organization … Read more
Recently, Maariv asked its readers in the shadow of coalition tensions and the ruling parties’ plunge in the polls, when is the right time to go to a general election? Among other things, readers were asked to give their opinion on the timing of a general election. They were asked whether, in their opinion, … Read more
The Knesset on Tuesday held a special conference to mark International Women’s Day, under the title “Women’s Contributions in the Swords of Iron War.” Knesset Speaker MK Amir Ohana (Likud) said at the conference, held under the auspices of the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality, that he expects the … Read more
Former prime minister Ehud Barak called on Israelis to protest the government and demand action for the government’s various missteps, calling on the public to “besiege the Knesset” on Sunday morning. “Day and night” In an interview on Army Radio, Barak was quoted as saying that “30,000 citizens need to camp outside the Knesset … Read more
Amidst a public debate about the justification for the decades-long blanket exemption from IDF service for haredi men, the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee (FADC) debated on Monday a bill to lengthen the age of exemption for reservists by one year. The bill’s intent is to preserve the current array of reservists at … Read more
As the Gaza war continues and hostage release negotiations remain stuck, poll results remained fairly steady compared to past weeks, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionist Party still below the electoral threshold, according to a new poll conducted by Lazar Research, led by Dr. Menachem Lazar, in collaboration with Panel4All, for Maariv on … Read more
Israel’s Knesset on Monday will vote for the first time ever to impeach a fellow member of Knesset, Ofer Cassif of the Hadash-Ta’al party, over his expression of support of South Africa’s petition to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague that Israel was committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. Cassif’s impeachment … Read more
