Coalition

The agreement is expected to allow the bill to advance in the Knesset's House Committee ahead of its final second and third readings after previous coaltion objections to wording.

Shas and UTJ said they would stop backing coalition bills after the daycare subsidies bill was left off the Knesset plenum agenda.

Explaining why she has voted against the legislation, Haskel said in her interview with the Post that, “we are at war, and when we have a pyramid of priorities, security always has to be on the top."

The question of whether polished English is one of the necessary qualifications for the job of prime minister ought to be addressed.

Haskel told The Jerusalem Post that over the weekend, “phone calls were made to almost all coalition members in order to check their positions and pressure them to vote on the conscription law.”

Poll: 55% of Israelis want Netanyahu to step down, as the coalition drops to 49 seats and the opposition strengthens to a majority.

On Tuesday, Rabbi Dov Lando, the spiritual leader of the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Degel Hatorah faction, gave a green light to work toward dissolving the Knesset “as soon as possible.”

The glass ceiling is more political than societal, despite the persistence of racism and mistrust among some Israeli Jews.

The bill, which would give ministers and the government far broader control, would apply to a long list of senior posts, including any post requiring government approval.

When we breakdown the data, what looks like national unity turns out to be two markedly different understandings of the war, imagined by two different publics.