When we speak of the upcoming elections, we are more often than not talking about the personal future of several dozen candidates and the personal fate of one, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Rabbi Zvi Thau, who calls homosexuals 'sexual perverts and cursed people', claims women's place is 'in the home and not in the public sphere', urged by Likud leader to join with far-right Smotrich, Ben Gvir for November elections
The deaths of two Israeli officers, caused by a series of unnecessary mistakes which exacted a dreadful price, were inexcusable and entirely preventable
Sovereignty movement leaders Nadia Matar (R) and Yehudit Katzover, October 5, 2018.
The call by Rabbi Zvi Thau on Monday for the creation of a 59-seat, right-wing coalition headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which would rely on the parliamentary support of the Islamic party Raâam, has been initially refused by Religious Zionism leader MK Bezalel Smotrich (
The two leaders sent out the following message by email and social media:
The Sovereignty Movement responds to the dramatic pressure that is being exerted to gain the agreement of the Right to establish a minority government with the support of the United Arab List (Raâam):
PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud MK Nir Barkat, February 16, 2020.
Radio host and Maariv chief political correspondent Ben Caspit on Monday reported that former Jerusalem Mayor, Likud senior MK Nir Barkat, met last Thursday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s two major media supporters, Israel Hayom editor Boaz Bismuth and IDF radio host Yaakov Bardugo, to stress the need to immediately replace Netanyahu in order to “save the rule of the right.” (
Barkat, according to the sources Caspit is citing, which include senior Likud figures, claimed that if Netanyahu does not move aside to be replaced by one of the Likud’s senior leadersâof whom Barkat, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, and Finance minister Israel Katz are the prominent candidatesâthe path to the formation of a left-wing government would be short, creating a “cry for generations” and a “historic failure.”