Interior Minister Moshe Arbel defended his position not to postpone municipal elections again, during a Knesset plenum session Wednesday morning. Arbel explained that the law passed in October that delayed the elections from the end of October to January 30 only included a clause that would allow for another deferment in case the circumstances … Read more
Religious Zionist Party (RZP) MK Ohad Tal started collecting signatures from other MKs on Tuesday for a bill that would postpone the municipal elections again. The elections, which were supposed to take place toward the end of October, were delayed until January 30, when the Swords of Iron War began on October 7. The … Read more
Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara must instruct the Finance Ministry to freeze coalition funds for the 2024 state budget, the Movement for Quality Government in Israel (MQG) urged in a letter to her, the Finance Ministry’s legal counsel, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. Following the passing of the amended 2023 budget last week, which included coalition … Read more
The Knesset passed a law on Monday that would allow doctors or medical institutions to share medical information on patients in order to help identify bodies or causes of death. According to the new law, medical information is only permitted to be shared with the National Forensic Medicine Center as well as experts who … Read more
Opposition leader Yair Lapid took to social media Tuesday to criticize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comparison between the deaths of victims of the Oslo Accords and those of the October 7 massacre. Lapid took to his X account (formerly Twitter) and denounced it as an “evil political campaign.” He stated that “Israel is at … Read more
Members of the Likud party and Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s son, are at the center of controversy surrounding the issuance of diplomatic passports. In response, MK Naama Lazimi (Labor Party) has sent a letter to Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara, urging her to intervene and investigate the matter. Foreign Minister Eli Cohen recently came under … Read more
The Knesset passed the amended budget for 2023 on Thursday in a 59-44 vote. The new budget includes an addition of some NIS 30 billion with NIS 17b. intended for the Defense Ministry and the war efforts. The rest was intended for civil needs that were the results of the war, a rehabilitation fund … Read more
Far-right National Missions Minister Orit Struk attacked IDF reserves officers for their “fat pockets [stuffed with money]” in an interview with N12 on Tuesday. Struk made the comment while being asked about the hundreds of millions of shekels being added to her ministry in the amended 2023 budget for uses like “family purity” counseling … Read more
