Tag Archives: Otzma Yehudit

Time to touch base on Israel’s political situation. I have studiously avoided writing about it for many weeks because the situation has been so in flux that whatever I wrote would probably have changed by the time most of my readers read my posting. More to the point, perhaps, I …

The election is upon us now – only two days away – and the situation is not substantially different from what it was when I last wrote.  Neither camp has a clear majority in the polls. Likud and Blue & White are reasonably neck-in-neck.  Maddeningly, each poll is somewhat different, …

In 2012 the United States refused to issue a visa for Knesset member Michael Ben Ari because he was a student of Meir Kahane and a former member of Kach, Kahane’s now-defunct political party that was banned from the Knesset on charges of racism. Ben Ari is also a founder …

25 February 2019 The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), the elected peak representative body of the Australian Jewish community, situated at the apex of more than 200 Jewish organisations across Australia, has expressed its deep dismay at the announcement that two mainstream Jewish political parties in Israel, Jewish Home …