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...Under pressure from Nazareth’s mayor and Arab members of the Knesset, Yisrael Katz, the Israeli finance minister, pledged in July to seek government approval for a roughly $9m aid package for Nazareth....
...Avigdor Lieberman, head of the secular ultranationalist Yisrael Beytenu party, broke up the last government in December 2018 over military draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox men....
...Avigdor Lieberman, a former ally-turned-nemesis of Mr Netanyahu, wrote on Facebook that his eight-seat Yisrael Beiteinu party would vote against the request....
...Israel’s foreign minister Yisrael Katz welcomed the news and the Trump administration’s “consistent and immense support for Israel”....
...Yisrael Beytenu controls five seats. If it did not join the government, Israel would have a hung parliament....
...He also requires the support of Avigdor Lieberman, the former defence minister who leads the secular ultranationalist Yisrael Beytenu party....
...Ilana Ben Harav, a 67-year old voter in Jerusalem, backed Mr Netanyahu. “Overall the security and economic situation is on the up-and-up....
...His majority in the 120-member parliament was cut to just two seats in November, when he lost the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beytenu party as an ally in the rightwing coalition he formed in 2015....
...No one can stop us from implementing our sovereignty and responsibility as a state,” said Mr Lieberman, who also heads the nationalist Yisrael Beytenu party....
...A city divided Few other cities have fuelled such passion and conflict as Jerusalem, writes Ilan Ben Zion in Jerusalem....
...As Yisrael Sadi wanders through a newly planted orange grove at Kibbutz Mefalsim, he worries about labour shortages ahead of this year’s harvest....
...Avigdor Lieberman, defence minister and head of the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party, said Mr Netanyahu should remain in office unless he was convicted....
...Mr Netanyahu sided with two ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties that hold the balance of power in his coalition and overruled Yisrael Katz, his transport minister, who had wanted to carry out essential engineering...
...An Israeli official confirmed on Thursday that negotiations had begun between Mr Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud party and Mr Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu (“Israel our Home”) party with the aim of broadening...
...Having won re-election, Benjamin Netanyahu is set to become the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history, overtaking founding father David Ben-Gurion....
...When Israelis vote in the country’s general election on Tuesday, the world will watch to see whether the reign of “King Bibi” — Benjamin Netanyahu, its longest-serving leader since David Ben-Gurion — is...
...Yisrael Katz, transport minister, said: “There’s absolutely no reason why American airlines in particular should stop their flights and thus hand a prize to terrorism.”...
...at Ben Gurion, the Jerusalem Post reported....
...However, the prime minister’s hold on power was weakened in the January 22 election, in which Likud and its ally Yisrael Beiteinu lost a quarter of their seats....
...“Zot Yisrael,” Ruti answered on behalf of our tongue-tied elementary class. (“This is Israel.”)...
...“This is an upset because it’s a change in the balance,” said Yehuda Ben Meir, senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv....
...Both outlets are on Harakevet Street, which along with Barzilay, Levontin and Mikve Yisrael Streets are the Gan’s main thoroughfares....
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