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Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel who sits on the rabbinical council of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, privately urged his students not…
Likud voters and the country as a whole deserve to know that those asking to exercise that trust intend to live among the people they represent.
Justice Minister Yariv Levin says two-thirds of Supreme Court could be replaced during the next government's term, says no need for judicial reform legislation.
Economy Minister Nir Barkat co-led a failed attempt to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu through a no-confidence vote immediately following Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack, Channel…
The Likud party is denying a report broadcast Tuesday evening on Channel 12 News claiming that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu granted entrepreneur Oren Dobronsky a reserved…
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir slams Likud election slogan, warning government with Yashar! chair Gadi Eisenkot would 'bury the judicial reform,' grant victory to Attorney…
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bar Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas from returning to Judea and Samaria following visit abroad.…
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the…
Parliament approves replacing capital punishment with life imprisonment and hard labor after executions had been frozen since 2004; Hezbollah was the only faction to oppose the…
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon’s parliament Tuesday abolished the death penalty, making it the first country in the Arab world to replace the sentencing with life imprisonment…
Taub Center analysis says Israel’s expanding electorate could raise the number of votes needed to clear the 3.25% threshold from about 171,000 at 70% turnout to…
Posting on social media, the Likud lawmaker said the defense minister was "terribly afraid of the primaries' results," slamming what she called a "despicable step that…
Illouz will be replaced in the Knesset by the next person on Likud's list, Shabtai Katash, a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) member of Lod's Religious Council.
There may be a certain political logic in trying to appease both the Israeli Right and Trump. But what the public sees is a prime minister…