1+ hour, 39+ min ago  (293+ words) Former prime minister Naftali Bennett slammed coalition lawmakers and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party on Tuesday for not taking further action to oppose the government's controversial haredi (ultra-Orthodox) conscription bill. "The reservists are being abandoned because they don't have…...

23+ hour, 46+ min ago  (534+ words) Bereaved families supported a new proposed framework for a commission of inquiry into the government's handling of the October 7 Hamas attacks, offering what they describe as a comprehensive compromise amid the ongoing deadlock over who should lead the probe. The…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (182+ words) Israel will reply with "unimaginable" force if Iran's Islamic regime launches an attack on Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday evening. Speaking at a 40-signature debate at the Knesset, the prime minister said that he "made it clear…...

2+ day, 28+ min ago  (662+ words) Former justice minister Ayelet Shaked called on former prime minister Naftali Bennett and Yisrael Beytenu chairperson Avigdor Liberman to join forces on Saturday evening, amid shifting dynamics in the opposition bloc rivaling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud ruling Party." "I…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1785+ words) After two years away from political life, former prime minister Naftali Bennett has emerged as a leading candidate in the upcoming elections, presenting a strategy for Israel he says he carefully built during his time away. Speaking to over 1,000 English-speakers…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (303+ words) Senior officials in Israel's ultra-Orthodox parties have accused Miri Frenkel-Shor, the legal adviser to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, of blocking progress on the long-delayed conscription bill, Maariv reported on Friday. The criticism came amid continued delays in…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (733+ words) Former prime minister Naftali Bennett was heard in leaked recordings released on Thursday saying that he "would not boycott" National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (Otzma Yehudit) and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionist Party)." The comments have sparked speculation that…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (421+ words) Amid years of legal wrangling over digital privacy and police powers, two close aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have asked a court to throw out an indictment against them, arguing that the investigation was so tainted by unlawful phone…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (435+ words) Kibbutz Nir Oz slammed the Prime Minister's Office's request to remove the word "massacre" from the proposed October 7 remembrance bill in favor of "events" or "incidents." "We condemn attempts by elements of the government to erase the massacre that took…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago  (768+ words) Opposition leader Yair Lapid on Tuesday called for a criminal investigation into figures within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's inner circle, accusing them of falsifying official security protocols and manipulating intelligence materials in the lead-up to the October 7 Hamas attacks. "The…...