Israeli Elections

Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, told members of his Yamina party that he will not be running in the upcoming election, a statement from his spokesperson said on Wednesday,...

As soon as it was announced that Israel is heading for yet another General Election, and the visit of US President Joe Biden to the region next month was...

Israel is gearing for its fifth election in less than four years, as the controversial and equally multifaceted Bennett-Lapid consensus ends in the Knesset (Israel's Parliament). The governing coalition...

Israel's main opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that his Likud party will never ally itself with the Ra'am Party, led by Mansour Abbas, which...

Israel is in the midst of a political stalemate. Bennett's centre-right government has resigned and new elections will be held in late October/early November. It does not really matter...

Israeli media have reported that Defence Minister Benny Gantz called yesterday on Knesset members from his Blue and White party alliance not to be tempted by the opposition to...

Two members of Israel's outgoing coalition government vowed, on Tuesday, to prevent a comeback by ex-premier Benjamin Netanyahu, their fellow right-winger, as the country braced for a fifth election...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his deputy, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, have announced their agreement to dissolve the Knesset (parliament) and go for an early General Election. In...

It was a surprise when Mansour Abbas, the head of the southern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, announced last year that his United Arab List (Ra'am) political...

Dozens of Palestinian families on Tuesday rallied in front of the Knesset (Israel's parliament) against government plans to vote on extending the family reunification law, Anadolu Agency reported. Protesters held banners...

Shortly before Israel's Naftali Bennett took over as prime minister, his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu ordered documents be shredded in his office, a report claimed yesterday. Sources who worked for Netanyahu...

Far-right opposition parties in Israel have claimed victory after embarrassing the new coalition government by ensuring that it failed to extend an apartheid law barring Palestinian family reunification. The...

When Palestinians face the prospect of the colonisation of the last remaining shards of their land by Israel, the answer is surely not collaboration with the right-wing apartheid state....

Israeli judges in former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial yesterday rejected a request to postpone the trial until after the Jewish holidays in September, Ynet News reported. Netanyahu's lawyers...

The Palestinian Authority has formed a negotiating team to deal with the new Israeli government at the request of the administration of US President Joe Biden, Israel's Channel 12 reported yesterday....

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to leave the postholder's official residence in Jerusalem, the Times of Israel reported on Tuesday. According to his office, the leader...

Israel's parliament voted 60-59 in favour of a new government on Sunday. Ultra-nationalist Naftali Bennett will head the new cabinet.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to attend the inauguration of his successor Naftali Bennett, Israeli media reported yesterday. Bennett's government won a narrow 60-59 vote of confidence...

The now-former Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, is as much American as he is Israeli. While other Israeli leaders have made their strong relationship with Washington a cornerstone...

Israel's 36th government has been sworn in and ministers have to start work immediately. After four elections in two years, they have some urgent tasks to focus on. Thorny...

Israel has a new prime minister for the first time since 2009. That's when Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu took office for the second time. It was not easy for...

Changes in the makeup of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, hardly cause for Palestinian optimism, even at the best of times. All governments of Israel since 1948 have pushed...

Almost half of Israelis do not believe that the new coalition government sworn in yesterday will complete its term, a poll conducted by Israeli TV Channel 12 showed. On Sunday, Israeli...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's record 12-year hold on power was set to end on Sunday when parliament votes on a new government, ushering in an administration that has...

Is the Israeli election circus finally coming to an end? I wouldn't bank on it quite yet, for two related reasons. Since 2019, there have been no less than...

The Knesset Interior Committee, headed by Arab-Israeli MK Mansour Abbas, has been stripped of its power due to the agreement to establish a new coalition "government for change", Arab48.com...

The Muslim Brotherhood has denied that it has any relationship with the Palestinian Israeli MK Mansour Abbas, head of Ra'am or Arab United List, Al-Watan Voice reported yesterday. The news site...

Israel's legislature will vote on Sunday on approving a new government, Reuters reported the speaker of parliament saying today, a move that will unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the country's longest-serving...

It is important to stress at the very beginning that those once close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are the same people who now want to see the...

Zionist rabbis in Israel have called for the proposed government to be blocked by any means necessary. According to a leaflet being circulated, the rabbis claim that the coalition...

The Israeli Knesset Guard yesterday granted extra security protection to two other lawmakers of the right-wing Yamina Party after they claimed to have been threatened by protesters aiming at...

Last week, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid told President Reuven Rivlin that he had formed a coalition government to replace the administration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the...