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Syrian troops push into strategic rebel-held town (AP)
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4000 Meuhedet health maintenance organization workers to strike Monday (Israel Radio)
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Israeli election: News & Features

Israel's new Education Minister accused of past ethnic discrimination

Rabbi Shai Piron is accused by two students of having discriminated against ethnic groups at the school where he was principal from 1995 to 2007.

By Lior Dattel | Mar 20, 2013 | 04:40 PM | 3

Education Minister Shai Piron.

Racist incitement by Israeli public figures doubled in 2012, study shows
By Jack Khoury | 13
New coalition agreement is landmark for Israeli education
By Meirav Arlosoroff | 3
Yair Lapid's strange choice
By Sefi Rachlevsky | 2

Israel's new government ministers

LIVE BLOG: Introducing Israel's 33rd government coalition

Israel's new ministers have been chosen and sworn in, after six weeks of negotiations; Netanyahu at first government meeting: Perils facing Israel are balanced by opportunities.

By Jonathan Lis, Barak Ravid | Mar 18, 2013 | 10:33 PM | 27

Netanyahu in Knesset

What to expect from Israel's new government: news and analysis by Haaretz writers

Following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's introduction of the new government, Haaretz explores the implications of the negotiations and of the results.

By Haaretz.com Staff | Mar 18, 2013 | 05:55 PM

Avigdor Lieberman

Lieberman vows to block settlement freeze efforts in Israel's next government

Former Foreign Minister, whose Yisrael Beiteinu party is considered the big winner of ministerial appointments in Israel's 33rd government; Netanyahu set to swear in new cabinet on Monday evening.

By Jonathan Lis | Mar 18, 2013 | 12:45 PM | 10

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, left, with Netanyahu in 2011.

Coalition math: Settlers in, ultra-Orthodox Jews out

The Haredim feel they were at war and lost in the negotiations to form a new government. And what of the rest of the Israeli public?

By Rotem Starkman | Mar 17, 2013 | 10:13 PM | 21

Avigdor Lieberman Eliahu Hershkovitz

Knesset is urged: Don't let cabinet form while seat is illegally held for Lieberman

Netanyahu can't just pledge to keep the Foreign Ministry for Avigdor Lieberman, who is on trial for corruption charges, argues attorney Assaf Even-Chen.

By Ofra Edelman | Mar 17, 2013 | 04:26 PM

Incoming Finance Minister Yair Lapid, left, and Yael German, who is to be health minister.

Yair Lapid: If Israel's finance minister fails, he takes the PM with him

'The finance minister’s seat doesn’t have to be filled by an expert, but by a politician with substantial political power behind him,' writes Lapid.

By Zvi Zrahiya, Moti Bassok | Mar 17, 2013 | 06:02 AM

Yair Lapid arrives at prime minister's bureau

Netanyahu threatens to bolt to Haredi parties unless Lapid drops 'exaggerated demands'

Coalition negotiations reach a serious impasse as Yesh Atid says it is ready for new elections unless it gets education portfolio; Yesh Atid: Netanyahu is threatening us with an empty revolver.

By Jonathan Lis | Mar 13, 2013 | 01:37 PM | 14

Avigdor Lieberman

Israel's AG still avoiding taking stance on reserving Foreign Ministry for Lieberman

Movement for Quality Government sends letter to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein on saving post for Lieberman until corruption trial is over, joining queries by MK Merav Michaeli and Ometz, a good-government NGO.

By Ofra Edelman | Mar 13, 2013 | 03:09 AM | 3

Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett in the Knesset.

Bennett to demand Finance Committee, post coveted by ally Lapid

Sources say option of rotation being examined for education portfolio, in which Shai Piron from Yesh Atid and Gideon Sa'ar from Likud will alternate as Education Minister after two years.

By Jonathan Lis | Mar 12, 2013 | 07:27 PM | 3

Yair Lapid, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Naftali Bennett

LIVE BLOG: Netanyahu's coalition talks enter final stage

Party leaders, including Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, are expected to work out the final details of coalition deal after late-night meeting fails to yield consensus on on all issues of contention; For first time since 1951, there will be no ministers without portfolios.

By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz | Mar 11, 2013 | 09:50 PM | 5

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