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| January 25, 2013
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PM offers Lapid Foreign Ministry or Treasury portfolios

According to sources, PM Netanyahu offers Yesh Atid chairman foreign or finance cabinet posts. Analysts believe Lapid is in fact keener on Ministry of Construction & Housing or the Ministry of the Interior portfolios

Ynet reporters

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid a choice between the foreign affairs or finance portfolios, sources close to the two said.

The two met at the prime minister’s residence on Thursday away from the public eye in a meeting that kicked off the coalition negotiations.

In a post on his Facebook page, Lapid said in response: “What’s happening now is neither a coalition negotiation nor the beginning of one. Continue Reading »

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| January 20, 2013
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Yesh Atid Party’s Chief: All I Want, is to be Rid of the Arabs

Chairman of Yesh Atid says Arabs don’t want peace. All Lapid wants is a tall fence between us and them. 

By Gil Ronen

 

Yair Lapid, the head of the Yesh Atid party, explained Sunday that he has no expectations from negotiations with the Arabs.

“I do not think that the Arabs want peace,” he wrote on his Facebook page.

Lapid said that he does not care what the Arabs want. “What I want is not a new Middle East, but to be rid of them and put a tall fence between us and them.” The important thing, he added, is “to maintain a Jewish majority in the Land of Israel.” Continue Reading »

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| January 16, 2013
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View video of Donald Trump endorsing Netanyahu

American real estate billionaire praises Israeli PM as “a terrific guy, a terrific leader, & great for Israel.”

 

American real estate mogul Donald Trump expressed frustration that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu cannot be president of the United States in an interview Tuesday with The Jerusalem Post.

Donald TrumpNetanyahu, who spent much of his childhood in a Philadelphia suburb, cannot be US president, because he was born in Israel. Trump led high profile, unsuccessful efforts to prove that US President Barack Obama was not born in America and even offered to donate money to charity if Obama produced his birth certificate. Continue Reading »

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| January 14, 2013
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Here’s Yair Shamir, a political scion & Avigdor Liberman’s likely replacement

Yair Shamir says “When you look at who Israeli politicians are, there isn’t enough representation of industry and agriculture, the people that are really doing anything.”

By Ben Sales ,JTA

 

For the Israeli Air Force commander turned technocrat turned politician, these topics include how to respond to settlement evacuations or achieve Palestinian statehood, a fracture in the U.S.-Israel relationship or Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman’s departure from politics.

Yair Shamir

Shamir, the 67-year-old scion of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, is the hard-line Yisrael Beiteinu’s No. 2. With Liberman, the former foreign minister, under indictment for fraud and breach of trust, he is the de facto heir apparent to one of Israel’s largest political parties. Continue Reading »

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| January 10, 2013
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MK Erdan: Media doesn’t report enough on gov’t’s achievements

PM Netanyahu: We know that any territory that we vacate will be seized by Hamas & Iran.

Outgoing Communications & Welfare Minister Moshe Kahlon to star in ad about reforms he initiated in cellular communications.

By Mati Tuchfeld and Efrat Foresher

 

 

Two days after televised campaign ads began being aired on Israeli television, the Likud-Yisrael Beytenu coalition’s campaign is kicking into a higher gear. The star of Likud-Beytenu’s next ads will be outgoing Communications and Welfare Minister Moshe Kahlon, who announced in October that he would be taking time out from political life and who is not running in the Jan.

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| January 8, 2013
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Israel used as pawn in Washington’s political game

Republicans & Democrats alike fight over Hagel’s appointment as defense secretary using his ‘Israel record’,but as a senator, Hagel always voted in favor of military aid to Israel.

By  Yitzhak Benhorin

 

WASHINGTON – Israel has recently become a major issue in the Democrat-Republican feud in Washington. Even those genuinely worried about Chuck Hagel‘s appointment as defense secretary should be far more concerned that Israel is once again a pawn in the American capital’s political game.

The Emergency Committee for Israel was a major player in the fight for the Jewish vote in the latest US elections, taking care to represent Obama as anti-Israel and reluctant to fight Iran’s nuclear program. Continue Reading »

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| January 8, 2013
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Poll: 53% Israelis believe Netanyahu best candidate for Israel’s security

According to the last Israel Democracy Institute Peace Index poll, Yacimovich has highest approval on economic issues as 60% support a 2-state solution, while 58% oppose splitting Jerusalem.

 

Most Israelis find Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to be most suitable candidate to handle security issues, the Israel Democracy Institute Peace Index poll found on Tuesday.

Netanyahu meets Rimon unit on Egypt border fence

Netanyahu meets Rimon unit on Egypt border fence – Photo: GPO

Fifty-three percent of Israeli Jews chose Netanyahu as able to handle security matters, followed by Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman (28%), Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett (25%), former IDF chief of staff and Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz (22%), Tzipi Livni (19%), Labor leader Shelly Yacimovich (14%) and Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid, who scored lowest with 8%.

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| January 2, 2013
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Likud’s Feiglin: Pay Palestinians to leave Judea & Samaria

Likud’s most far-right members suggest paying each Palestinian family in Judea & Samaria $500,000 to move to West.

Akiva Novick

 

Several Likud officials called for the annexation of the West Bank on Tuesday, in contradiction with the party’s official policy.

Moshe Feiglin Photo: EPA

Moshe Feiglin – Photo: EPA

Despite being instructed by the Likud campaign not to give interviews, Moshe Feiglin made controversial statements during a conference in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

The Women in Green conference was attended by several Likud officials who discussed operative ways to impose Israeli sovereignty beyond the Green Line.

Feiglin, who earlier on Tuesday was detained by police after trying to pray at the Temple Mount, proposed paying Palestinians to leave Israel. Continue Reading »

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| January 1, 2013
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Security Council head tells ambassadors: Quit or enter politics

National Security Council’s Amidror bats at criticism from envoys over policy, saying they should either represent Israel, resign or enter politics.

 

National Security Council head Yaakov Amidror’s irritated response to questions by Israeli ambassadors about E1 – that they should either represent Israel’s position, resign or go into politics – was representative of a government attitude that does not put a premium on explaining policy to those who must represent it,  Foreign Ministry officials said Monday.

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The officials were responding to a Yediot Ahronot story Monday that Amidror snapped a day earlier at ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor when he asked about the timing of the decision to announce planning for development of the E1 section between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim.

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| December 14, 2012
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A Mere 28% Still Believe in ‘Palestinian Partner’ Poll

Only 28.2% of Israelis feel Israel has someone to negotiate with.

29.1% said Zoabi should be left alone

Poll shows 75% see Netanyahu winning the elections.

By Maayana Miskin

 

Only 28.2% of Israelis believe that Israel has a partner for peace in negotiations with the Palestinians, according to a new survey conducted by Gal Hadash for Yisrael Hayom. 62.4% say there is no partner for peace.

The Arab population of Judea, Samaria and Gaza is currently politically split. Those in Gaza are ruled by Hamas, which rejects Israel’s existence and calls to destroy the Jewish state.

The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas has control in Judea and Samaria. Continue Reading »

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| December 13, 2012
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State: Lieberman charged with breach of trust & fraud charges

AG Weinstein announced corruption case against Lieberman dropped.

Instead, Foreign Minister will be charged with fraud and breach of trust for promoting former ambassador to Belarus who tipped him off about investigation.

By Aviel Magnezi

 

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein on Thursday announced his decision to charge Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with fraud and breach of trust for working to promote former Israeli ambassador to Belarus Ze’ev Ben Aryeh without disclosing the fact that Ben Aryeh had illegally leaked information about an investigation against him. However, the attorney general said a more serious corruption case against Lieberman has been closed.

FM Lieberman – Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg

The announcement comes just weeks before a Jan. Continue Reading »

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| November 21, 2012
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Op-Ed: This is What Israel Must Do

Will all Israeli leaders continue the same timid & fearful policies that too many have shown when dealing with the U.N, the Obama Administration, the Quartet, & the EU?

By Victor Sharpe

 

Israel must choke off the endless supply of weapons and missiles into Gaza by repossessing the Philadelphi Corridor — the narrow strip of land separating Egypt from the Gaza Strip. It should do this as a most basic but vital military act for its own security and survival. It can still do so while only Hamas rules in the Gaza Strip and should have done so long ago.

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| November 21, 2012
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‘Tear Gaza into Two’ says Naftali Bennett

Habayit Hayehudi chairman harshly criticizes gov’t, says:  a “country that cannot protect its residents is degrading itself in the eyes of the world. A country that protects its residents is respected.

“I think there is weakness of spirit a loss of fighting spirit, Jewish spirit, Zionist spirit on the part of the government.”


By Ynet

 

Amid growing signs of a ceasefire, Habayit Hayehudi Chairman Naftali Bennett harshly criticized the government on Wednesday. “They’ve lost all common sense,” he said on Ynet’s TV studio.

Israel’s political party,Habayit Hayehudi (The Jewish Home) Chairman, Naftali Bennett

The newly-elected chairman called on the government to expand Operation Pillar of Defense and “tear the Gaza Strip into two.” Continue Reading »

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| October 28, 2012
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Israel’s Cabinet to Push for Negav Fortification Plan

Escalation in south prompts gov’t to move up vote on PM Netanyahu’s defense plan despite no approval of State budget

By Yoav Zitun

 

The government is set to vote on the southern communities’ fortification plan despite the fact that the 2013 State budget has yet to be approved, Ynet leaned Sunday.

Qassam rocket – Photo: Eliad Levy

The plan, promoted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will see to the defense of 1,700 homes and institutions located 4.5-7 kilometers from Gaza Strip. It is estimated at NIS 270 million ($69.7 million).

Israel’s southern communities suffered heavy rocket fire last week, as over 75 projectiles were fired at the area on Wednesday alone. Continue Reading »

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| October 27, 2012
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Haim Ramon Calls for ‘Center-Left’ Unity Coalition

Former MK Haim Ramon says that in response to the unity between the Likud & Yisrael Beytenu parties, Israel’s ‘center-left’ parties must unite.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

Former MK Haim Ramon, one of the founders of Kadima, on Friday called on Israel’s center-left parties to unite in response to the unity between the Likud and Yisrael Beytenu parties.

“Given the sense of emergency (because of the unity in the right –ed.), the center and the left should unite and place at the head the man or woman who is the best suited to be prime minister,” Ramon told Channel 2 News. Continue Reading »

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