Lapid to become new Prime Minister as Israel heads to election
Jerusalem, IsraelReuters Israeli lawmakers will vote next week to dissolve parliament, opening the way for the country’s fifth election in three years, after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett could not contain the rising pressure on his fragile ruling coalition. Bennett will step aside to be replaced by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, his partner in the unlikely […]
Israel and West Bank on edge after more bloodshed
Jerusalem, Israel Reuters Israeli forces killed two Palestinian women on Sunday after one ran towards troops and the other stabbed a soldier in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, Israeli security officials said. With violence surging after a string of deadly Arab attacks in Israel, a Palestinian man was killed by Israeli soldiers during what […]
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy presses Israel for missile defence help, fighting rages in Mariupol
Lviv, UkraineReuters Russian and Ukrainian forces fought for control of the port city of Mariupol on Sunday, local authorities said, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appealed to Israel for help in pushing back the Russian assault on his country. In the latest in a series of appeals he has made for help from abroad, Zelenskiy […]
Israel moves ahead with thousands of settler homes despite US opposition
Jerusalem, IsraelReuters Israel moved forward on Wednesday with plans to build some 3,000 homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, defying the Biden administration’s strongest criticism to date of such projects. A senior Palestinian official said the decision showed that Israel’s new government, led by far-right politician Naftali Bennett, was “no less extreme” […]
Essay: How Israel’s missing constitution deepens divisions between Jews and with Arabs
In an article first published on The Conversation, scholar BRENDAN SZENDRO outlines why he sees a constitution for Israel as a key to addressing the nation’s political instability…
Updated: Israel-Gaza violence erupts for first time since end of last month’s fighting
Updated: 10am AESTGazaReuters Israel mounted air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the first since the end of 11 days of cross-border fighting last month, in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian territory. The flare-up, a first test for Israel’s new government, followed a march in East Jerusalem on Tuesday by Jewish […]
New Israeli Government approves nationalist march in Jerusalem
Jerusalem, IsraelReuters Israel’s new government on Monday approved a Jewish nationalist march in Jerusalem, a step that risks inflaming tensions with Palestinians hours after veteran leader Benjamin Netanyahu handed over power to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. In the flag-waving procession, planned for Tuesday, far-right groups will march in and around East Jerusalem’s walled Old City, […]
Netanyahu out, Bennett in as Israel marks end of an era
Jerusalem, IsraelReuters Benjamin Netanyahu’s record 12-year run as Israel’s Prime Minister ended on Sunday with parliament approving a new “government of change” led by nationalist Naftali Bennett, an improbable scenario few Israelis once could have imagined. But the razor-thin 60 to 59 vote of confidence in a coalition of left-wing, centrist, right-wing and Arab parties […]
Israel’s Lapid set to unseat Netanyahu, form new government
Jerusalem, IsraelReuters Israel’s opposition leader moved closer to unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday when he officially informed the country’s President that he has reached agreements with political allies to form a new government. About 30 minutes before a midnight deadline, the centrist Yair Lapid, according to a party statement, told President Reuven Rivlin […]
Final vote results show major setback for Israel’s Netanyahu
Jerusalem, IsraelAP Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing allies fell short of winning a parliamentary majority in Israel’s latest election, according to a final vote count released Thursday, leaving a political deadlock that put the long-time leader’s future in question. The fourth election in just two years brought a stinging rebuke for Netanyahu, the […]