Speaking at Labor Party Convention, Labor leader explicitly announces she will run for prime minister of Israel; party primaries set for Nov. 27.
by Jonathan Lis 0 commentsAs a chronic optimist, I see only an opportunity in the Likud-Yisrael Beitenu merger.
by Oudeh Basharat 0 comments
Journalist Merav Michaeli announces she will run for spot on Labor Party list; an analysis of the hometowns of Labor contenders indicates the big cities come first.
by Tal Schneider 2 commentsNot only is the leader of Israel's Labor Party Shelly Yacimovich dressing up as a free market supporter for Halloween, but at heart she isn't even a real socialist.
by Nehemia Shtrasler 1 comments
Speaking at a Knesset session marking 17 years since the assassination of PM Yitzhak Rabin, Reuven Rivlin said two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians a denial of the reality of our lives here.
by Jonathan Lis 4 comments
Some 20,000 gathered in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square for the annual event in memory of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was murdered during a peace rally in 1995.
by Ilan Lior 3 comments
Documents sent by Israel's embassy in Paris to Jerusalem after Shelly Yacimovich's visit to France in July indicate that the Labor leader has also advocated for negotiations with no preconditions, but with recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.
by Barak Ravid 8 comments
Invitations to a debate scheduled for January 1 have been sent out to all party leaders, but no invitee has confirmed they will take part.
by Jonathan Lis 0 comments
The party blocs are feeling mistreated due to Yacimovich's attempt to shape a so-called list of stars ahead of elections in January.
by Jonathan Lis 0 comments
Social protest leaders Stav Shaffir and Itzik Shmuli will compete for spots on the party's list, as Labor's campaign incorporates social protest sentiments.
by Jonathan Lis 1 comments
Using the starting gun that opened the 2013 election campaign on Tuesday, Netanyahu is trying to bring down five different birds: Obama, Yacimovich, Lapid, Olmert and Barak.
by Ari Shavit 2 commentsNetanyahu’s blunders, and squandering of political capital, has made a Bibi-Shelly contest a possibility.
by Ari Shavit 1 commentsShelly Yacimovich considers herself a social democrat, but the truth is that she is a socialist from the old-fashioned school that has ceased to exist.
by Nehemia Shtrasler 0 comments
Party leader Shelly Yacimovich decides against sending a delegate to the South Africa conference, leaving one Meretz MK to forestall a decision naming Israel an apartheid state.
by Barak Ravid 3 comments
Facebook user alerts MK to law forbidding travelers from bringing vegetables from abroad into Israel without Agriculture Ministry examination.
by Jonathan Lis 1 comments
