Eight members of the Israeli Parliament visited the Jewish communities of New York and New Jersey as part of a trip organized by the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and the Jewish Agency for Israel. The purpose of the visit was to acquaint the parliamentarians with the richness and diversity of Jewish community life in North America, issues,…
Israel may hold the fourth consecutive early parliamentary elections. The Knesset on Friday, April 17, in the morning was given 21 days to make a decision on the formation of a government. The parties of Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu have failed to agree on a unity government. The BBC writes about it. ...
The Israeli Knesset (parliament) decided to dissolve itself, which will lead to new elections. For the first time in the country's history, the current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, failed to form a coalition within the allotted time. During the voting, 74 parliamentarians voted for the dissolution of the Knesset, more...
The Israeli Knesset has tentatively backed a bill that makes it easier for military courts to pass the death sentence on terrorists. The bill, which is funded by Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, still has to go through three rounds of voting in the Knesset to become law, Haaretz writes. The Security Service opposes a bill that is likely ...
For the first time in history: the prosecutor's office of a foreign state has opened a criminal investigation into the charges of the ex-Israeli minister and the current member of the Knesset. Just a day after the information about the scandalous meeting of the Israeli deputy Yaakov Margi with the head of the occupation power of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov, a fairly quick reaction followed ...
Only after returning from Crimea to Israel, Knesset Deputy Yaakov Margi (the Shas religious party) realized the scale of the scandal he provoked by his meeting with the head of the occupying power of the peninsula. Yesterday, the ForumDaily portal reported on this scandal, being the first to give exclusive comments from high-ranking sources about ...
The scandalous visit to Crimea of the ex-Minister of Religious Affairs, the current member of the Knesset from the Shas party Yaakov Margi and his meeting on February 10 with the head of the occupying power of the peninsula, Sergei Aksenov, caused a sharply negative reaction in Ukraine towards the Israeli guest. The arrival of this 55 year old native ...
The government's legal adviser, the state prosecutor and the speaker of the Knesset received letters asking them to begin an investigation into the actions of the head of the Meretz party, Knesset member Zahava Galyon, who approved the call to hang Avigdor Lieberman. The letters were sent by right-wing camp activist Shai Glik - based on the results of a publication on the website “0404“,...
A little more than a month remains before the end of the elections of delegates to the World Zionist Congress, and the most acute struggle is taking place in the United States. The largest Jewish community lives here, and it is from here that almost a third of all delegates will come. Anyone can vote online ...