JERUSALEM (JTA) — Maybe the third time will be the charm.
Israel will hold an unprecedented third election in less than a year after lawmakers failed to form a government coalition by Wednesday night.
The date of the next election is set for March 10. That makes it fall on...
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(JNS.org) – Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that Israel is headed to its third round of elections this year.
“Elections are coming,” Lieberman told the Yedioth Ahronoth daily in an interview. Unity talks had reached a dead end, he said, and he had decided against...
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By MARCY OSTER
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel may be headed to its third election in the span of one year. But then again, it may not be.
Benny Gantz, head of the centrist Blue and White party, informed Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday that he could not form a...
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(JTA) — Naftali Bennett, head of the New Right party, has been appointed Israel’s defense minister while agreeing to have his party join with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud to form a single Knesset faction.
Netanyahu, who heads a caretaker government pending coalition talks following the September general election, appointed...
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By ALEX TRAIMAN
(JNS.org) – History has been made in Israel as, for the first time in a decade, someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu will be tasked with forming a government. Sort of.
On Wednesday, President Reuven Rivlin gave the coveted mandate to challenger Benny Gantz, leader of the...
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin will officially ask Benny Gantz to form a government.
Rivlin will give the mandate to Gantz, head of the Blue and White faction, on Wednesday evening at the President’s office in Jerusalem, a statement from Rivlin’s office said.
The charge comes after the...
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(JTA) — In the latest twist in Israel’s ongoing leadership struggle, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited his chief rival, Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz, to join him in a “broad unity government.”
Gantz declined.
In a video posted to Facebook on Thursday morning, Netanyahu said he presented Gantz...
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — A meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Liberman, who prevented Netanyahu from forming a coalition government following elections in April, lasted for less than an hour and failed to make progress toward forming a unity government.
“Netanyahu offered Lieberman to join the government as soon...
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By BEN SALES
(JTA) — Israeli voters delivered an inconclusive result in last week’s election. More than a week after the vote, it’s still unclear what shape Israel’s government will take.
But a majority of Jewish voters is clear on one thing: They want their next government to be less...
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Arab Joint List recommended to President Reuven Rivlin that Blue and White head Benny Gantz be tapped to form the next government in order to end the political career of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Joint List head Ayman Odeh explained his coalition’s decision in an op-ed...
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