Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Opinion Israel’s Big Losers — Not Just Ultra-Orthodox
The Forward looks today at some of the winners in Israel’s new coalition deal, but who are the losers? Apart from the obvious answer which is the Haredi parties, who were left out in the cold, Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz is one of the biggest losers. His party has just two seats in the new…
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Israel News Benjamin Netanyahu Cobbles Together Israel Coalition of Rivals
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has successfully assembled a government, after almost six weeks of tense negotiations and pushing up against his deadline on Saturday. Three parties will serve alongside his Likud-Beiteinu faction: the new centrist Yesh Atid, the staunchly pro-settler Jewish Home, and the Tzipi Livni’s dovish party, known in Hebrew as Hatnua. The…
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Israel News Is Sara Netanyahu the Erratic Power Behind Bibi’s Throne?
Of the many explanations for the long, drawn-out and chaotic coalition negotiations that have followed Israel’s recent election, the most intriguing is that they have more to do with Benjamin Netanyahu’s home life than with his political aspirations. According to one of Israel’s top journalists, it is his wife’s publicly known antipathy toward one of…
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Opinion Why Obama Won’t Go to Rabin Square
One of Barack Obama’s hopes for his Israel visit is to address the Israeli public. Some commentators, such as Yoram Meital interviewed for a Forward article, have expressed the view that this lies at the crux of his trip, with him hoping to talk to Israelis about Iran over their Prime Minister’s head. But anybody…
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Opinion Labor’s Turn To Play Ball With Bibi?
The official deadline on Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition building falls this weekend, but with just one faction on board apart from his own — the six-seat Tzipi Livni Party — he is still short of the Knesset majority he needs. Only 37 of the Knesset’s 120 seats are in the bag, meaning that another 24 are…
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Israel News Despite Election Spotlight, Netanyahu May Resist Change in Haredi Draft Exemption
Israel’s recent election was dominated by discusion of how to integrate ultra-Orthodox young men into the military. But Israelis are now facing up to the possibility that in practical terms, nothing will change on this front during the new Knesset session. In the months leading up to the election, as calls grew for an end…
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Opinion What Is Tzipi Livni Thinking?
Given that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hardly famed for his enthusiasm on the peace process, it’s interesting that his first signing for his new coalition is the party that ran the campaign with the strongest make-peace-with-the-Palestinians emphasis Today, Netanyahu recruited the six-seat Tzipi Livni Party, and announced that the party’s leader Tzipi Livni,…
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Opinion Third Time Lucky for Bibi?
Any hopes that Avigdor Liberman had for a quick trial in time to become part of Israel’s new government were dashed today, when his trial opened in Jerusalem and looked set to become a slow affair. Yisrael Beytenu party head Liberman, who was Foreign Minister until he resigned to face his charges shortly before the…
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