New MK Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi) is already hard at work on a new Knesset bill. Shaked, who was sworn in on Tuesday along with the rest of the members of the 19th Knesset, is promoting a bill that will thwart any possibility that nationals from enemy countries could sue the State of Israel for […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who will head a large but weaker Likud party in the new Knesset, gave a victory speech at his party’s headquarters on Tuesday night. “You have once again proved that Israel is a vibrant, dynamic, exemplary democracy, and I am proud to be your Prime Minister, and I thank you for […]
Voter turnout for Israel’s elections has been high Tuesday morning, with 38.3% of voters exercising their right to vote by 2:00 p.m. The turnout for this hour was 4.4% higher than in the last elections, in 2009. The turnout by 12:00 noon was the highest since the 1999 election, 14 years ago. One quarter of […]
Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett said Monday that Binyamin Netanyahu intends to establish a left-leaning government after the elections. Speaking at the 10th Jerusalem Conference, Bennett said, “The Prime Minister’s plan is to establish a left-wing government as he did in the last elections. The public elected a nationalist government and received Ehud Barak.” “Tzipi […]
MK Danny Danon (Likud) is set to launch a new book which explains in very clear terms his positions against the two-state solution and about Israel’s rights to its land. The book, “Israel: The Will to Prevail”, can already be bought from Amazon.com. Arutz Sheva’s Yoni Kempinski sat down with Danon to hear about the […]
A terrorist who was among the 1,027 freed in exchange for captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was recently arrested for further terror-related crimes, making him the eighth Shalit deal prisoner to be rearrested. MK Danny Danon (Likud) is not surprised. “More than fifty percent of those who are released return to terrorism,” he told Arutz […]
The Jerusalem District Court will hear on Thursday a motion by Arab MK Taleb A-Sana (Raam Taal), Arab local authority heads and Muslim clerics, to block Israelis’ access to the trailer for the movie “The Innocence of Muslims.” The video hurts Muslim religious sensibilities and constitutes racist incitement, the petitioners claim. The video “is very […]
Several dozen Muslims from the Islamic Movement in Israel held a quiet protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv Thursday. Meanwhile, Arab members of the Israeli Knesset joined the Islamic choir of condemnation against a U.S.-made film that depicts Muslim prophet Mohammed in a negative light. Nationalist MKs warned that the Arabs are trying […]
The Knesset held a special discussion on Tuesday regarding the 1915 Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Genocide, also called the Armenian Massacres or the Great Crime, was the planned and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire around the time of World War I through massacres and forced marches. Between 1 and 1.5 million Armenians died during this […]
Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner, the IDF officer videotaped striking a Danish anarchist with his gun, told a confidante Sunday that the leftist struck him first, causing fractures in his hand. Arik Ben Shimon, who served under Eisner in the past, spoke to him after the incident and heard his version of what happened. The Deputy […]
