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Americans for Peace Now
March 20, 2017
The most prominent is the rift between Defense Minister Lieberman of Yisrael Beitenu and Education Minister Naftali Bennet of HaBait HaYehudi regarding issues of religion and the growing contingent of women serving alongside men in IDF combat units ...
Al-Monitor
March 19, 2017
At the same time as the broadcasting corporation crisis, the media covered another squabble between Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beitenu) and Education Minister Naftali Bennett (HaBayit HaYehudi). The conflict between the two leaders of ...
Al-Monitor
March 15, 2017
Yisrael Beitenu Chairman and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman had been director general of the Prime Minister's Office during Netanyahu's first term (1996-99) before quitting and forming his own party.
Haaretz
March 13, 2017
Avigdor Lieberman, head of far-right Yisrael Beitenu party, (L) sits Israel's defense chief in 2016. Has he ... Perhaps Lieberman is jealous of Habayit Hayehudi leader Naftali Bennett and the Likud lawmakers who are calling for annexation of the West ...
Globes
March 12, 2017
There were also interesting results for the smaller parties: United Torah Judaism wins 7 seats, as do Moshe Kahlon's Kulanu party and Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beitenu. Shas wins 6 seats, as does Meretz. The party being set up by former defense ...
Al-Monitor
February 22, 2017
These talks between Netanyahu and Herzog ended dramatically when Yisrael Beitenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman entered the government as its minister of defense at the end of May 2016.
Jewish Chronicle
February 20, 2017
The secret summit that took place a year ago in Aqaba, attended by former US State Secretary John Kerry as well as the leaders of Egypt and Jordan, revealed this week in Haaretz, was the last station on Mr Netanyahu's precarious path during the Obama ...
Al-Monitor
February 16, 2017
Trump made no mention whatsoever of the so-called Regulation Law - the land theft statute legalizing unauthorized West Bank settlements - which was harshly criticized by European leaders and even by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin when the Knesset ...
Al-Monitor
February 6, 2017
For the most part, the leadership of the right has long been in the image of a single man (Netanyahu), who made sure to eliminate his rivals and sideline his party's most upper echelons.
Yahoo News
January 31, 2017
Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said his Yisrael Beitenu faction would support the bill, despite reports that the attorney general has said he would refuse to defend the law if it were challenged in court.
Al-Monitor
January 24, 2017
The Yisrael Beitenu chairman threatened that if Hamas failed to acquiesce to his demand, he would recommend to Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas' leader in Gaza, that he book himself a plot at a nearby cemetery. ... The photo of the two senior Palestinian leaders ...
Al-Monitor
January 23, 2017
This latter question is especially important now that the prime minister has a new rival in the coalition, the leader of Yisrael Beitenu, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman. Liberman is trying to insert himself into the position of the pragmatic ...
The Daily Herald
January 11, 2017
It's not unprecedented for Israeli leaders to be investigated: Former Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon were both questioned but ultimately weren't charged with crimes, while Netanyahu's immediate predecessor, Ehud Olmert, was sent to jail ...
Al-Monitor
January 7, 2017
Just prior to his rather surprising appointment, Yisrael Beitenu chairman Liberman had managed to take the reins of the public struggle for Azaria's exoneration.
FRANCE 24
January 3, 2017
They were there to question the nation's leader as a possible criminal suspect after nine months of exploration that has unfolded painfully slowly then suddenly accelerated into a full-fledged investigation.
Jewish Chronicle
December 25, 2016
MP Luciana Berger and Jon Lansman, founder of Momentum, the movement which helped propel Jeremy Corbyn to the Labour leadership, will be among panellists debating the party's turbulent relationship with the Jewish community. ... A variety of voices ...
Al-Monitor
December 15, 2016
This background information is important in understanding the confrontation between Naor and Knesset member Robert Ilatov (Yisrael Beitenu), a member of the Judicial Selection Committee. This clash was reported Dec. 14 in the Yedioth AhronothÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
November 18, 2016
Netanyahu and Liberman were also furious at HaBayit HaYehudi leader Naftali Bennett, who was quick to announce that "the era of the Palestinian State is over," after Donald Trump's surprising election victory in the United States.
Globes
November 17, 2016
Adv. Shimron was the moving spirit behind the coalition negotiations that led to Netanyahu's fourth government, and he was also involved in the negotiations that brought the Yisrael Beitenu party into the coalition and the party's leader Avigdor ...
Al-Monitor
November 11, 2016
Another Yisrael Beitenu lawmaker, Robert Ilatov, tried to revive it in 2014, but he, too, failed to push it through. In November 2015, Yogev and other lawmakers ... "In some places, like [the mixed Arab-Jewish towns of] Jerusalem, Lod, Ramla and Jaffa ...
Al-Monitor
November 11, 2016
Anastassia Michaeli of Yisrael Beitenu had proposed a similar bill five years ago. At the time, she claimed that the law was not directed at Muslims, ... "In some places, like [the mixed Arab-Jewish towns of] Jerusalem, Lod, Ramla and Jaffa, due to the ...
Al-Monitor
November 8, 2016
Abbas, so they claim, is far from perfect (we Israelis are the only ones who have such leaders). He prefers to surround himself with ... The top Fatah echelons can compete with the heads of Liberman's Yisrael Beitenu Party for the title of the Middle ...
Al-Monitor
November 7, 2016
In contrast to the fluctuation of other parties in the polls since the election - the fall of the Zionist Camp and Kulanu Party and the rise of Yesh Atid, Yisrael Beitenu and HaBayit HaYehudi - Netanyahu and the Likud have succeeded in maintaining a ...
Al-Monitor
October 25, 2016
Russians also have another reason for their special interest in Palestine and Israel. Some 1.5 million Israeli citizens are of Russian origin.
Nena News Agency
October 24, 2016
Il leader di Yisrael Beitenu ha minacciato di distruggere "completamente" Hamas in una futura guerra, ma che al momento lo stato ebraico non ha alcun interesse ad iniziare una nuova offensiva su Gaza. Il falco Liberman ha poi affermato che lsraele ...
Americans for Peace Now
October 19, 2016
By the spring of 2014, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was so weakened by his inability to deal with Kerry's demands that he "fled" to a renewed unity government initiative with his arch-rival, Gaza-based Hamas.
Americans for Peace Now
October 19, 2016
By the spring of 2014, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was so weakened by his inability to deal with Kerry's demands that he "fled" to a renewed unity government initiative with his arch-rival, Gaza-based Hamas.
Al-Monitor
October 4, 2016
The Ministry of Justice's press release on its decision to press charges against 16 suspects under investigation in the Yisrael Beitenu corruption case called it "one of the biggest ever revealed in Israel." The prosecution expects to soon press ...
Al-Monitor
September 29, 2016
The heads of Netanyahu's two other government partners - Yisrael Beitenu Party chairman, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, and HaBayit HaYehudi Party chairman, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, were absent.
Al-Monitor
September 27, 2016
He is a strong leader, and it doesn't look like anyone is about to compete against him, despite former Interior Minister Gideon Saar's hints.
Jewish Chronicle
September 16, 2016
Likud is losing ground to its right-wing partners/rivals Jewish Home and Yisrael Beitenu but Mr Netanyahu is still the undisputed leader of the right-wing-religious bloc, which continues to hold a stable majority. Elections are not on the horizon but ...
Al-Monitor
September 16, 2016
In that time, Abbas became a punching bag for the Israeli leadership, particularly for Yisrael Beitenu Chair and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, who insulted the Palestinian leader on a regular basis and declared that he was no longer relevant. The ...
thejewishchronicle.net
September 15, 2016
With a Terrible Towel in hand, five Knesset members visited Pittsburgh in order to better grasp diaspora Jewish life. The group, which included Merav Ben Ari and Yifat Shasha-Biton of the Kulanu party, Mickey Levy of Yesh Atid, Robert Ilatov of Yisrael ...
Al-Monitor
September 15, 2016
As the implementation of the ruling approaches, political tensions are rising, with settlers looking to the right-wing parties in the coalition - the Likud, HaBayit HaYehudi and Yisrael Beitenu - to save them. Over the past few weeks, the staff ...
JNS.org
September 12, 2016
The lawmakers - Merav Ben Ari (Kulanu), Robert Ilatov (Yisrael Beitenu), Mickey Levi (Yesh Atid), Nachman Shai (Labor/Zionist Camp) and Yifat Shasha-Biton (Kulanu) - are visiting Toronto, Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh on a seven-day trip organized ...
Al-Monitor
September 11, 2016
Although Herzog is the current de facto head of the opposition, by virtue of those 24 (real, not virtual) seats in the latest elections, when the Knesset returns from its summer recess in October for the winter session, all eyes will be on Yesh Atid ...
Globes
September 7, 2016
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid could be on the way to becoming Israel's next prime minister according to the latest poll conducted by Mina Zemach's Midgam Research Institute for Channel 2 news.
Al-Monitor
August 18, 2016
There are those who, like Liberman's predecessor, Moshe Ya'alon, interpreted Liberman's behavior as an attempt to "showcase his 'leadership skills' over the IDF chief of staff." Liberman may well have found an opportunity to seat Eizenkot on a ... They ...
Al-Monitor
August 9, 2016
In a statement he issued on the website of his Yisrael Beitenu party in July 2015, he claimed the deal would go down in history alongside the Munich Agreement as "a dark day for the free world.
http://hamodia.com
August 7, 2016
When the deal between Iran and world powers was signed last year, Yisrael Beitenu party leader and current Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman compared it to the 1938 Munich Agreement, calling the deal "total capitulation to unrestrained terrorism and ...
Al-Monitor
August 5, 2016
The leader of Yisrael Beitenu, a party not known for its leftist leanings, gave the prime minister's declaration of diplomacy his full-throated support.
Al-Monitor
August 1, 2016
It is true that once Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beitenu) joined the government, it became harder for the Labor Party to come onboard, but at the same time, it is also true that the door has not been slammed shut.
European Jewish Press
July 12, 2016
JERUSALEM (EJP)--- "Jewish philanthropists around the world should not donate to anti-Zionist causes and activities that delegitimize the State of Israel,'' said Israeli Defense Minister and Yisrael Beitenu party leader Avigdor Lieberman as he met withÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
June 23, 2016
Liberman is the leader of Yisrael Beitenu, while Kahlon heads Kulanu, without whose 10 seats Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have no government.
Globes
June 16, 2016
Before giving in, Minister of Finance Moshe Kahlon spoke harshly against Gafni at a meeting of the coalition faction leaders on Monday, calling Gafni's behavior "insufferable." Kahlon previously sent Ministry of Finance director general Shai ...
Forward
June 16, 2016
The temporary takeover by Orthodox worshippers of the area at the Western Wall designated for non-Orthodox services combined with doubts about the Israeli government promise to sanction egalitarian prayer there has spurred non-Orthodox leaders to ...
Canadian Jewish News (blog)
June 14, 2016
Following last month's surprising news that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had expanded his government through a coalition with Yisrael Beitenu and appointed its leader, Avigdor Liberman, to serve as defence minister, Canadian Jews are ... I ...
Cyprus Mail
June 11, 2016
In a bid to prevent the collapse of his government the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appointed Avigdor Lieberman, head of Yisrael Beitenu, as defence minister on May 25. His predecessor, Moshe Yaalon, did not hide his anger when ... It is ...
Al-Arabiya
May 30, 2016
Avigdor Lieberman, head of far-right Yisrael Beitenu party, (L) sits next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) as they sign a coalition deal to broaden the government's parliamentary majority, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in ...
Sun Sentinel
May 28, 2016
In a surprise move last week, Netanyahu sacked Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon to make way for Avigdor Lieberman, the hawkish leader of the Yisrael Beitenu party - and a settler himself - to take the post, which oversees the settlements. The addition ...
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