Yair Lapid, leader of the centrist liberal Yesh Atid party, became Israel’s fourteenth prime minister last week, following the dissolution of the Knesset. What happened Lapid became prime minister following the collapse of the coalition government headed by Naftali Bennett, in which Lapid served as foreign minister. Lapid will remain Read more…
Senior diplomats from Israel, the US and regional Arab allies agreed to increase efforts to improve security, stability and prosperity in the Middle East during a follow up meeting to the Negev Summit in Bahrain on Monday. The first meeting of the Negev Summit Steering Committee – consisting of Israel, Read more…
Israel’s defence ministry announced on Tuesday that it had begun reinforcement work on dozens of homes in Israeli communities close to the Lebanese border. The homes are those that are most likely to be hit by rocket fire in a future conflict with the Hezbollah terror group. The effort, dubbed Read more…
A Knesset member in opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party pushed back against the former prime minister on Monday following a rebuke for saying that the Arab-majority Ra’am party could join a Likud-led government following elections later this year. In an interview on Sunday, lawmaker David Amsalem said he was Read more…
A delegation of Young Labour activists is this week visiting Israel and the Palestinian Territories on a joint delegation organised by LFI and We Believe in Israel. What’s happening The trip is LFI’s first activist delegation to the region in more than a decade. The itinerary has given delegates a varied Read more…
This afternoon, LFI was pleased to host Israeli Agriculture Minister Oded Farer as part of a cross-party UK-Israel APPG briefing event for parliamentarians. In the discussion, MPs and peers heard about how the start-up nation is revolutionising agriculture, including the role of AI and how Israeli agritech can help fight Read more…
The Knesset committee for foreign workers, headed by Labor MK Ibtisam Mara’ana, has this week considered the need for work visas for LGBT Palestinians facing persecution in the West Bank and Gaza. The hearing took place after the High Court ruled that Israel’s welfare-based permits also included the possibility of Read more…
After weeks of speculation, Israel’s unwieldy coalition government bowed to political pressure yesterday, announcing that it would dissolve itself and call Israel’s fifth election in less than four years. What happened At a press conference on Monday evening, prime minister Naftali Bennett and foreign minister Yair Lapid confirmed they intended to dissolve Read more…
Steps to a two state solution: For Israel, for Palestine, for peace Step Twenty Four: Support the reunification of the West Bank and Gaza under PA authority The reunification of the West Bank and Gaza is a crucial step in the establishment of a viable Palestinian state. It is also Read more…
Members of the Hamas terror group planned to seize control of a Palestinian security installation near Ramallah, Palestinian sources claimed this week. The allegation coincides with the fifteenth anniversary of Hamas’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip, which saw the Palestinian Territories split between Islamist Hamas in Gaza and the Read more…
Two aerospace division officers from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps who died over the weekend were involved in arming the Lebanese-based and Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group, according to reports. UK-based Iran International reported that Ali Kamani and Mohammad Abdous were “developing arms” for Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy, and that the Read more…
Tel Aviv Pride celebrated its 23rd birthday on Saturday as 170,000 Israelis took to the streets of the city in a joyous celebration which saw the number of participants close to pre-pandemic levels. The parade took place amid several steps forward over the past year for the LGBTQ community in Israel Read more…