Just the other day there was still a consensus here. Bibi is no longer the prime minister of Israel, and taking into account Netanyahu’s legal situation, it is not clear whether he will continue to be the leader of the opposition, say, another year from today. The “first Israel” is the privileged secular European-oriented group that hates Netanyahu, while members …
CNN — As the Shabbat drew to a close in Israel, funerals for the victims of Friday’s crush at Mount Meron have resumed – and so have the recriminations over the mountaintop disaster that killed 45 people, including children. Gil Cohen Magen/AFP/Getty Images Ohana, a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, and one of the Prime Minister’s most loyal allies, …
Dozens of people were crushed to death in a crowd at a religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, medics said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a "heavy disaster". The crush occurred as tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews thronged to the Galilee tomb of 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai for annual Lag B'Omer commemorations that …
