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Likud, Habayit Hayehudi facing off in coalition talks

Mar 29 2015
Israel
Source: 
Haaretz

Likud officials have estimated in recent days that among the three portfolios Bennett is likely to demand – defense, education, and religious affairs – his party will only receive one, in addition to two other portfolios that have yet to be determined.

Earlier this week, Habayit Hayehudi MK Ayelet Shaked suggested a law to be implemented by the next government. The bill would force any organization seeking tax exempt donations from foreign sources to receive approval from the Defense Minister, the Foreign Minister and the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

Netanyahu gets go-ahead to form Israel's next government

Mar 25 2015
Israel
Source: 
Reuters

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, grappling with fierce White House disapproval, won consent from Israel's president on Wednesday to try to form a new coalition government.

The surprise victor of a March 17 election, Netanyahu looks well set to assemble a heavily right-leaning cabinet that will control 67 of parliament's 120 seats - a large majority in a country where no one party has ever been able to rule by itself.

Kulanu backs Netanyahu to form coalition, giving PM absolute majority in his favor

Mar 23 2015
Israel
Source: 
Jerusalem Post

Kulanu representatives on Monday met with President Reuven Rivlin, recommending that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be tasked with forming the next coalition. The nomination gave Netanyahu an absolute majority of 61 votes in his favor.

Kulanu leader Moshe Kahlon told President Rivlin that his party was neither Left nor Right, but socially-oriented with a central focus on the human being.

"We nominate Netanyahu and the broader the base of the coalition the better it will be for all of us," Kahlon said.

Arrancan los contactos para la formación del nuevo Gobierno de Benjamin Netanyahu

Mar 22 2015
Israel
Source: 
El Mundo

Tras la victoria del Likud, el presidente, Reuven Rivlin, que recibe a los partidos para escuchar a quien recomiendan como primer ministro, pide la unión de la sociedad israeli.

 

Bajo la alargada sombra del enfrentamiento sin precedentes entre el liderazgo de Estados Unidos e Israel y tras una tensa campaña electoral, el nuevo Gobierno de Benjamin Netanyahu ha iniciado hoy oficialmente el proceso de su formación.

Netanyahu wakes up to shock election victory

Mar 18 2015
Israel
Source: 
Ynet News

With 99 percent of the ballots boxes counted, Likud opens six seat lead over Zionist Union with 30 mandates, Joint Arab List retains third place; Lieberman, who was polling at the electoral threshold, surprises with 6.

 

While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been trailing his Zionist Union opponent in the polls leading up to the elections, the real-time results on Wednesday morning show the Likud leader enjoying a major advantage over the left-wing's Isaac Herzog.

 

Netanyahu says no Palestinian state if he remains PM

Mar 16 2015
Israel
Source: 
Ynet News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a final bid to shore up right-wing support ahead of a knife-edge vote on Tuesday, said he would not permit a Palestinian state to be created under his watch if he is re-elected.

Trailing his centre-left opponent Isaac Herzog in opinion polls, the three-term leader has sought to shift the focus away from socioeconomic issues and on to security challenges, saying he alone can defend Israel.

La agenda social se impone en Israel

Mar 15 2015
Israel
Source: 
El Mundo

"Recorro todo el país y lo que más le preocupa hoy al ciudadano es si podrá comprar una casa en su vida o si los bancos dejarán de cobrarle escandalosas comisiones", asegura a EL MUNDO Moshe Kahlon a tres días de las elecciones en Israel. Este ex ministro del Likud y pieza clave en el puzzle del "día después", ha fundado el partido centrista Kulanu ("Todos Nosotros") por una sola razón: la agenda social.

Netanyahu se lanza al contraataque tras verse superado en los sondeos

Mar 14 2015
Israel
Source: 
El País

La apuesta de centrar su campaña en el eje de la seguridad, que llegó al clímax en su discurso ante el Congreso de Estados Unidos el pasado día 3, puede haberle salido por la culata a Benjamín Netanyahu. El primer ministro israelí, que se ha quedado estancado en el segundo puesto en los últimos sondeos autorizados antes de las legislativas del próximo martes, hechos públicos este viernes, se ha visto forzado a multiplicar su presencia en la campaña para pasar al contraataque.

Likud trails Zionist Union by 4 seats days ahead of elections

Mar 13 2015
Israel
Source: 
Ynet News

With four days to go ahead of vote, Netanyahu's Likud suffers blow in polls, receiving only 22 Knesset seats, while Herzog's Zionist Union reaches 26; Bayit Yehudi and Yesh Atid tied at 12, Yedioth Ahronoth poll says.

The Zionist Union has increased its lead over the Likud, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party polling at 22 as opposed 26 for his main rival, Isaac Herzog, giving his center-ticket a clear lead over the ruling party with only four days before Israelis head to the ballots.

'Soy del pueblo palestino y de Israel'. Entrevista a Ayman Odeh

Mar 13 2015
Israel
Source: 
El Mundo

Por primera vez desde el Gobierno de Yitzhak Rabin en 1992, los árabes en Israel pueden tener la llave en las elecciones. La culpa es de Ayman Odeh, de 40 años, al conseguir lo que parecía misión imposible: unir a los partidos árabe-israelíes. También ha contribuido el temor de algunos políticos a quedarse fuera de la Knesset (Parlamento) tras la ley que elevó el corte de escaños a cuatro.

Jerusalem Post political correspondent Gil Hoffman sits down with the PM for a one-on-one interview

Mar 13 2015
Israel
Source: 
Jerusalem Post

Four days ahead of Tuesday’s election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political life.

The Zionist Union’s lead is growing. The Likud’s satellite parties on the Right and Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu are biting off chunks of its support.

Netanyahu’s fate appears to be in the hands of President Reuven Rivlin, with whom he has sparred for three decades. His refusal to endorse Rivlin’s run for president could come back to haunt him next week, when the president begins the process of assigning a candidate to form a new government.

Netanyahu says sees 'worldwide' effort to topple him

Mar 10 2015
Israel
Source: 
Ynet News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in broadcast remarks on Tuesday there was a "huge, worldwide effort" to ensure he loses next week's closely contested election.

Army Radio, which aired what it said were comments he made on Monday to activists of his right-wing Likud party, interpreted them as referring to foreign funding for advocacy groups campaigning for a change of government in Israel.

Polls: Netanyahu's Congress speech boosts Likud, but no game changer

Mar 05 2015
Israel
Source: 
Haaretz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Congress speech may not have halted the nuclear talks with Iran, but it succeeded in at least one respect: restoring the two Knesset seats Likud had lost in recent poll projections.

According to a Channel 10 poll released Wednesday, if the elections held today Likud would win 23 seats (compared to 21 in the previous poll), while Zionist Union maintains its strength at 23 seats.

Netanyahu says will bring haredi parties into next coalition, abolish criminal sanctions

Mar 03 2015
Israel
Source: 
Jerusalem Post

PM reiterates that he didn't support the imposition of a legal obligation on haredi men to serve in the IDF that was approved during the last gov't; says he would change the law in the coming gov't.

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has underlined once again that he does not support a legal obligation on haredi men to serve in the IDF that was approved by the outgoing government, and says he will change the law in the coming government.

Arab Joint List rejects idea of joining Herzog-led government

Mar 03 2015
Israel
Source: 
Jerusalem Post
The Joint (Arab) List has no plans to join any government, even one led by Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog.

Raja Zaatry, spokesman for the Joint List and responsible for its media campaign, told The Jerusalem Post in an interview on Monday evening that there was no chance it would join even a left-wing government at this time, because it does not want to be part of bad decisions taken by it.

“We cannot be a part of a government that still occupies our people,” Zaatry said.

Netanyahu lands in US ahead of Congress speech

Mar 01 2015
Israel
Source: 
Ynet News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has landed in the US ahead of a speech he called "historic" before the US Congress. Netanyahu will address AIPAC on Monday and will then address Congress on Tuesday in a speech that has seen political tensionsbetween Israel and the US reach a record high.

According to a source within Netanyahu's entourage, the prime minister will expose details of the looming deal with Iran, which will show the world powers have conceeded to much to Iran as part of the negotations.

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