People of Israel candidate quits Ofer Winter's party amid mounting pressure from right-wing rivals
Davidi Ben Zion quits Ofer Winter's party amid right-wing pressure, prompting fierce criticism from Winter and praise from Netanyahu and Smotrich.
Davidi Ben Zion quits Ofer Winter's party amid right-wing pressure, prompting fierce criticism from Winter and praise from Netanyahu and Smotrich.
"Instead of dealing with the People of Israel and the electoral threshold, focus on reducing the percentage of trucks entering Gaza every day as protection money for Hamas," Winter said.
Haredi sources believe that if the opposition bloc secures a majority to replace the Knesset speaker, it may also also gather the support needed to form a government.
Israel uses a system called proportional representation, which helps explain its many political parties, complicated coalition negotiations, and frequent early elections.
Nahumi Yaffa and Zivva Glantz, both running on the Haredi Public party's list, voiced concerns for women in the haredi community they seek to address in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.
Lieberman said on Sunday that mandatory military or civilian service for all Israelis would be a nonnegotiable condition for joining a government, while proposing a constitution drafted by experts.
It was a different time. Everybody watched the same station, giving the parties an opportunity today’s campaign managers can only dream of: reaching a broad audience in one place.
Declaring the Joint List will use "every tool at our disposal," party leader Yousef Jabareen also laid out a series of demands as conditions for providing political support to a minority government.
Likud officials believe another election could hurt Bennett politically, potentially making an agreement with Netanyahu a more attractive option.
Support for the debate stood at 38% among respondents planning to vote for Likud, according to KAN, compared with 80% among those intending to vote for Eisenkot's Yashar party.
"Anyone who saw my statements today understood they were meant to [be] absurd," Bennett said.