Meretz News

The Israeli left has voiced sharp opposition for the National Referendum Bill , which is expected to be passed this week on Wednesday or Thursday.

The Knesset published on Thursday a detailed accounting of how Israel's lawmakers spent their taxpayer-funded "contact with the public" allowance in 2013.

In meeting with Meretz leader Gal-On, Abbas says he will not extend talks beyond April deadline if core issues not addressed; says he would only agree to more negotiations if settlements frozen, more prisoners released.

Men who refuse to give a bill of divorce to their wives can be sentenced to 20 years in prison, according to a proposal by MK Michal Rosin approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation Sunday.

Labor, Welfare and Health Committee chairman Haim Katz postponed the first reading of an amendment to the Women's Work bill on Monday.

Meretz leader Gal-On says if bill passes it will "legitimize violations of human rights" and will contribute to the trampling of democracy in Israel.

MK Nissan Slomiansky said on Monday that if the Committee for the Fight against Poverty will not operate within a budgetary framework, its conclusions will be in vain.

Former Palestinian Authority Prisoner-Affairs Minister Ashraf Al-Ajrami, who spent 12 years in Israeli custody for terrorist activity, attended a meeting of the Meretz party steering committee, threatening that, "Failure of the negotiations will bring about the unilateral establishment of a Palestinian State."

The opposition had harsh criticism for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday, claiming he was not a true leader and that he was being ruled by the "extremists".

Coalition chairman Yariv Levin's proposal to legally differentiate between Christian and Muslim Arabs passed its second and third readings in the Knesset Labor, Health, and Welfare Committee on Wednesday.

Of the 10 actual and potential candidates, two are women; one is a former Knesset speaker and the other a former Supreme Court judge.

Times are hard for the hard left. Polls keep showing the right getting stronger, with the left continuing to shrink.

Chairwoman Zahava Gal-On of the leftist Meretz party criticized Deputy Education Minister Avi Wortzman, Thursday evening, for his announcement that he would act to cancel a decision to allow the screening in schools of the controversial film "5 Broken Cameras ", which depicts the struggle of Palestinian Authority residents against the Samaria ... (more)

Leader of Meretz says demonstrators' demand to build in E1 meant to split the West Bank in two, prevent the Palestinian state from having any territorial contiguity, and deny chance for east Jerusalem to be capital for Palestinians.

Member of Knesset Nitzan Horowitz slammed his fellow MKs from the Jewish Home party who walked out in the middle of the controversial speech by the President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz.

I was reading this article which recounted a statement by an Israeli government minister, who declared his support for the one-state solution.

"I intend to bring a new reality in which plastic bags will disappear from the landscape and culture," environment minister says.