Meretz News

Meretz's Gal-On calls Turkish leader's comments that he made at a campaign rally "despicable, vile and irresponsible."

Meretz's Gal-On calls Turkish leader's comments that he made at a campaign rally "despicable, vile and irresponsible."

Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On said on Friday that it was unfortunate that Prime Minister Netanyahu let Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Liberman convince him of the need for a ground invasion in Gaza, one that "was costing the blood of IDF soldiers and innocent Palestinians."

Knesset security guards removed MK Jamal Zahalke from a Knesset Interior Committee meeting after he told Police Insp.-Gen.

MK Zehava Galon, Chairperson of the far-left Meretz party, spoke with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday morning, demanding that he cancel Operation Protective Edge which was launched the previous night in response to the flood of Gaza rocket fire.

During the meeting with MK Davidi, MK Regev called to take citizenship away from Israeli-Arabs who incite to terrorism.

FM Avigdor Liberman says Israeli Arabs who rioted Friday belong in prison; Meretz chairwoman accuses FM of promoting hate between Jews and Arabs.

While some in the right are calling for revenge for the kidnapping and murder of Eyal Yifrach, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Frenkel, hundreds of protesters gathered at HaBima Square in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening urging "No to Escalation, No to Revenge."

Meretz chairwoman Zehava Gal-On said rocket fire from Gaza is terrorism that has no legitimacy.

Hundreds of Israelis gathered in downtown Jerusalem Wednesday evening to protest a wave of nationalistic violence that swept the city a day earlier.

The response to the murder of the three abducted Israeli teens, Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaar, and Naftali Fraenkel, has been predictable in its call for restraint and moderation.

Two committee reports on important social issues were published last week. The first committee, on the war against poverty, submitted its report on June 23. The second committee, on strengthening public health, submitted its report two days later.

MK Issawi Frej says that with vote Israel chose not to "strengthen the familiarity between different parts of Israeli society."

Mothers of the three youths come to Knesset, where MKs from nearly every party from Meretz to the Bayit Yehudi showed their support; "We pray and beg God, but he will do what is right," one of the mothers says.