Israeli officials hail Netanyahu’s ‘important,’ ‘historic’ speech to Congress

Israeli government officials praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday following his address to the U.S. Congress. Read more

Israeli opposition files first no-confidence motion since war’s start

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid filed a no-confidence motion against the government on Wednesday over the passing of the state budget. 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

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

Yair Lapid calls Netanyahu ‘weak’ next government ‘dangerous’

Outgoing Prime Minister of Israel Yair Lapid took a combative tone Thursday night in an address to the Israeli public, condemning the new coalition government to be led by Benjamin Netanyahu and promising to fight against it. Read more

Yair Lapid calls Netanyahu ‘weak’ slams proposed ‘Deri Law’

Outgoing Prime Minister Yari Lapid had some harsh words on Monday for the man poised to replace him, Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more

Fight for the common good

Prime Minister Yair Lapid yesterday addressed the memorial ceremony for IDF soldiers who fell in the Yom Kippur War. Read more

Lapid rejects Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has finally emerged from the cocoon of silence that has enveloped all current 120 Knesset members – choosing to reject a solution emanating from Saudi Arabia on June 8 calling for the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the West Bank into one territorial entity to be called the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine (Saudi Solution). Read more

Israel condemns Mahmoud Abbas’ Holocaust comparison as ‘reprehensible and unfounded’

Israel’s Leadership has strongly condemned remarks made by the leader of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas – also known as Abu Mazen – accusing Israel of committing 50 “Holocausts” against Palestinians over the years. They called the remarks, which were especially egregious as they were made in Germany, “despicable” and a “moral disgrace.” Read more

Lapid threatening ‘effect on relations’ if Jewish Agency operations in Russia banned

Prime Minister Yair Lapid chaired on Sunday a discussion on the activity of the Jewish Agency in Russia after Vladimir Putin’s administration commenced operations to ban the Agency’s activities in the country, threatening that “closing the Jewish Agency offices would be a serious event that would affect relations.” Read more

Israeli leaders discuss Biden’s upcoming visit with local counterparts

Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Jordanian King Abdullah II spoke on the phone Saturday night in honour of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha and ahead of US President Joe Biden’s visit to the region this week. Read more

Yair Lapid meets Deborah Lipstadt

Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid has met with US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt. Read more

PM Lapid seeks to lead Israel’s government ‘as if elections were not being held’

Prime Minister Yair Lapid headed his first weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday, after entering office on Friday. Read more

Incoming prime minister meets the president

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog has met with incoming Prime Minister Yair Lapid and his wife Lihi Lapid at the president’s residence. Read more

Israel’s Prime Ministership changes hands

Outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and incoming Prime Minister Yair Lapid held a modest handover ceremony at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on Thursday, hours after the Knesset voted to dissolve itself and send Israel to the fifth round of elections in less than four years. Read more

Lapid to be Israeli PM ahead of election

Israeli parliamentarians will vote to dissolve parliament, opening the way for the country’s fifth election in three years, following weeks of pressure on Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s fragile ruling coalition. Read more

Noa Tishby appointed Israel’s first ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has announced the appointment of the country’s first-ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel. Israeli artist, author and model Noa Tishby will be the first person to fill the newly-established position. Read more

Iran has accumulated 40 kg of 60% enriched uranium in past year

Defence Minister Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid held a briefing on Wednesday for 80 foreign ambassadors stationed in Israel, against the background of the wave of terrorism, the Iranian threat and the remerging nuclear deal, and other issues on the agenda. Read more

A Ramadan intifada?

The Muslim month of Ramadan, which began on Friday night, is already proving to be the challenge that Israeli authorities had anticipated. Palestinians and radicalized Arab Israelis swarming the Old City of Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate on Saturday and Sunday attacked police, who were stationed at the site to keep the peace. Read more

Must Bennett wave the white flag on a new Iran deal?

As far as Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is concerned, there’s no point in getting into a fight you can’t win. Read more

Israel continues Russia-Ukraine diplomacy efforts

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid spoke with Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Tuesday, the latest in a series of conversations between Israeli and Russia and Ukraine officials in an attempt to mediate between the two sides. Read more

Israel to support UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Israel will co-sponsor and vote in favour of a resolution at the United Nations condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, “together with a decisive majority of the world’s countries,” Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced Monday during a briefing to reporters. Read more

Will Israel find itself on the wrong side of the ‘changing’ world order?

With fighting raging in Ukraine, Israel finds itself torn between supporting independent Ukrainian sovereignty and not wishing to anger a newly belligerent world power in Russia. Read more

Yair Lapid on Holocaust Remembrance Day: ‘The Jewish State is the future and Mauthausen is a museum’

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid made a special visit to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is held on the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. He was joined by the Chancellor of Austria, Karl Nehammer. Read more

FM Lapid: pushing for renewed diplomatic process

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will “continue to make an effort” to restart the defunct diplomatic process with the Palestinian Authority (PA), he stated, a day after meeting a possible successor to PA head Mahmoud Abbas.

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Government approves commission of inquiry into submarine purchase affair

Israel’s government voted on Sunday in favour of the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the purchase of submarines for the Navy, which was allegedly entangled with corruption. Read more

IDF cancels training, malls scale back operations, amid spike in Omicron cases

The ministerial committee on fighting the coronavirus convened on Tuesday night for the first time in three weeks to discuss “the continued effort to combat the Omicron strain” as the virus continued to cause disarray in the country. Read more

Lapid and French President Macron discusses Iran nuclear talks, Israel’s demand to ‘put pressure on Iran’

Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid held “a long conversation” on Saturday night with French President Emmanuel Macron on the “regional challenges, the nuclear talks and Israel’s demand to put pressure on Iran, and relations between Israel and the European Union.” Read more

With Bennett watching, Gantz and Lapid are bringing Israel back towards a two-state paradigm

Israel may have a right-wing prime minister, but Naftali Bennett is not positioning Israel’s diplomatic priorities. Read more

Lapid: ‘Without peace talks, 2022 will likely see Israel designated apartheid state’

Israeli Foreign Minister has called for a diplomatic dialogue with the Palestinians, citing concerns that otherwise international organizations may designate Israel an apartheid state. Read more

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