Tel Aviv Light Rail to open to the public today

The Red Line’s 34 stations run from Bat Yam through Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, Ramat Gan and Petach Tikva.

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Pull the other one

When someone tells you something that is so patently absurd, the natural response is an old English expression “pull the other one, it has got bells on it.” Read more

Netanyahu: ‘There won’t be a civil war’ over judicial reform

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured NBC News on Monday that wherever the debate in Israel over his government’s judicial reform effort leads, it won’t be to violence. Read more

Normalising ties: Israeli, Saudi sources disagree on Palestinian linkage

In recent days, officials in Jerusalem and Washington have hinted at possible progress in normalising relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Read more

The day after

Trying to predict events when it comes to Israel and the region is fraught with uncertainty. Read more

Netanyahu has pacemaker implanted

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a pacemaker implanted in the early hours of Sunday morning. Read more

Unity on the Gold Coast

Against the background of increasingly heated internal opposition, the direction of the Israeli government is becoming clearer. Read more

Netanyahu gets an invitation to the White House

U.S. President Joe Biden this week hosts Israeli President Isaac Herzog. The purpose of the visit and speech to Congress is to celebrate Israel’s 75th anniversary. However, the absence of a formal invitation to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu until just before the trip added policy dimensions… writes David Wurmser. Read more

Bibi-hatred trumps creating Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

One wonders what led Israel’s leading left-wing newspaper Haaretz to publish a bizarre article by Rogel Alpher headlined “I oppose peace with Saudi Arabia”  because Alpher fears Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s political position will be strengthened if Netanyahu succeeds. Read more

Netanyahu feeling good after hospital stay

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was kept at Sheba Medical Centre in Ramat Gan overnight on Saturday for observation apparently suffering from dehydration, Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. Read more

Herzog scores two White House invites, before Netanyahu gets one

Israeli President Isaac Herzog—slated to be in Washington to address a joint session of Congress—has been invited twice to the White House. Read more

Israeli Security Cabinet votes to save Palestinian Authority

Israel’s Security Cabinet on Sunday night voted in favour of a series of economic and defence measures to boost the Palestinian Authority. Read more

An appeal from the president – wake up now!

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has appealed to Israel’s political leaders to “halt the legislative process immediately.” Read more

Protests increase as Netanyahu sacks defence minister

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sacked Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, triggering mass protests a day after Gallant broke ranks with the government and urged a halt to a highly contested plan to overhaul the judicial system. Read more

Israel ratifies law limiting conditions for ousting PM

Israel has ratified a law limiting the circumstances in which a prime minister can be removed, despite worries voiced by a government jurist that it might be meant to shield the incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu from any fallout from his corruption trials. Read more

Netanyahu: Herzog’s judicial reform proposal perpetuates imbalance of power

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a judicial compromise proposal presented on Wednesday night by President Isaac Herzog during an address to the nation earlier in the evening. Read more

Israel is our business

Israel’s Six-Day War disrupted Benjamin Netanyahu’s graduation plans at Cheltenham High School, located less than a mile from the Philadelphia neighbourhood where I grew up. Read more

Secret talks paving way for Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

The bombshell revelation that senior aides of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have been holding secret talks for almost two months further confirms the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) acceptance of the Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (Saudi Solution) as the basis for negotiating an end to 100 years of conflict between Arabs and Jews. Read more

Israeli government delays vote on controversial judicial reform bills

Israel’s governing coalition delayed several Knesset votes related to a contentious judicial reform that were scheduled for Wednesday. Read more

Netanyahu visits bereaved family

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara have paid a condolence call on the Paley family at their home in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Ramot, where two members of the family – Yaakov, 6, and Asher, 8 – were murdered and another civilian, 20, were intentionally run over by a terrorist. Read more

New two-state solution: Israel & Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

Indications that a new two-state solution – Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine – continues to progress towards its successful implementation – were in evidence again this past week. Read more

Ehud Barak compares judicial-reform compromise to appeasement of Nazis

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Friday likened efforts by President Isaac Herzog to mediate between the coalition and opposition over the government’s proposed judicial reform to the West’s appeasement of Nazi Germany. Read more

Netanyahu slams ‘explicit threat’ by protest leader to murder him

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night harshly criticised what he said was a “growing wave” of threats directed at himself and other officials, after a leader of the anti-government protests appeared to call for his assassination. Read more

Abdullah & Bibi keep moving on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

Jordan’s King Abdullah and Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu continue their march forward to implementing the Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine Solution (Saudi Solution). Read more

Netanyahu at bay, but what about the facts?

So, how’s Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faring in his supposed program to smash democracy at the behest of the religious extremists in his government? Read more

Netanyahu Pays Surprise Visit to Jordan

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has paid a surprise visit to Jordan, where he met in Amman with King Abdullah. It was Netanyahu’s first foreign trip since becoming Prime Minister in December. Read more

Netanyahu Fires Interior Minister, Opposition Slams Government ‘Circus’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired embattled government minister Aryeh Deri at the end of Sunday’s Cabinet meeting. Read more

Netanyahu: Israel cannot be swept away by ‘inflammatory’ slogans

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended his government’s judicial reform plan and called on opposition leaders to stop threatening “civil war” and speaking of “the destruction of the state.” Read more

Netanyahu: Claims judicial reform will end Israel’s democracy are ‘baseless’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected as “baseless” claims by critics that his government’s proposed judicial reforms would mark the end of the country’s democracy and vowed to implement the plan “responsibly.” Read more

Penalising Palestinian lawfare

The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office announced on Friday plans to impose sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for its latest act of lawfare aggression against the Jewish state. Read more

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