Israel Elections

According to the index, 53% of Israelis are completely certain whom they will vote for, while another 29% are fairly certain of their decision.

Yair Golan unveiled the Democrats’ election platform, promising political reform and legislation preventing criminal defendants from serving in Israel’s next government.

Haskel explained that a broad Zionist government would put “the state ahead of sectoral interests.”

Given current daunting national challenges – domestic, regional, and international – it is worth examining the positions and likely policies of those who could soon form the next government.

The association’s action followed reports that senior Transportation Ministry officials were considering measures intended to prevent Israeli citizens living abroad from arriving on charter flights.

The left-wing Democrats are one of the core parties in the opposition bloc seeking to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the elections, set for October 27.

A full Knesset term, the first in nearly four decades, is a real institutional achievement in a region where governments rarely die of old age. But the Temple was magnificent on its last morning too.

"We are completing a four year term, we have passed nine budgets, hundreds of laws," said Coalition whip Ofir Katz ahead of the bill's passing.

The legal dispute comes as Likud leaders remain deadlocked over the party's primary rules despite days of negotiations involving Netanyahu, Katz, Bitan and other senior party figures.

This law means by “Torah study” includes only haredi students at haredi yeshivas who are engaged almost exclusively with religious issues, and most of whom have very little, if any, general education