Coalition

Netanyahu's coalition 'massively pressuring' MKs to vote for haredi draft bill, Haskel tells 'Post'

Haskel told The Jerusalem Post that over the weekend, “phone calls were made to almost all coalition members in order to check their positions and pressure them to vote on the conscription law.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to the courtroom at the Distrcit court in Tel Aviv, before the start of his testimony in the trial against him, October 28, 2025.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Jerusalem Day event, May 14, 2026; illustrative.

Over half of Israelis want PM Netanyahu to retire from politics, not run in Knesset election - poll

Justice Minister Yariv Levin, MK Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionist Party), and MK Yulia Malinovsky hold joint press conference in Knesset ahead of upcoming vote on bill to publicly prosecute Oct. 7 terrorists, Sunday May 10, 2026.

MK Simcha Rothman rushes bill to split A-G position as Knesset dissolution looms - report

Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 12, 2026.

The resistible integration of Arabs into the Israeli democratic game - opinion


Netanyahu acts like a political novice as Knesset grows frustrated - comment

The growing alliance with Smotrich disrupts budgets, frustrates Likud, and tests Biden's patience. Netanyahu, once a seasoned politician, is acting like a political novice.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on December 16, 2023

Is Israel's emergency government falling apart?

National Unity MK Matan Kahana addresses the emergency government amid the ongoing war

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen in the Knesset plenum on December 6, 2023

2023 budget preparation resumes without extra funds for settlements

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attacked the opposition and even employees of his ministry, calling the latter antisemitic, due to opposing the funds for settlements.

 Israeli settler leaders are seen arguing with lawmakers at a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee, in Jerusalem, on December 11, 2023.

Israel's Knesset passes divisive wartime budget in first reading

While the original coalition funds in the state budget were cut down for the amended budget, they still include billions of shekels.

 A vote on the state budget at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem. December 6, 2023.

As Israel fights Hamas, Netanyahu gov't engages in political shenanigans

INSIDE POLITICS: The Netanyahu government's wartime budget amid the freeing of hostages shows that while Israel is united in grief, fear, and sorrow, the coalition still looks out only for itself.

 WAR CABINET member and head of the National Unity party Benny Gantz visits Hostages Square next to Tel Aviv Museum of Art last week.

Coalition funds can only be used for war purposes - A-G's office

The AG's instructions come after coalition funds have been debated continuously over the course of the last month.

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich and United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni shake hands, as MK Ofir Katz, chairman of the government coalition, looks on at a meeting in the Knesset.

Gov't to approve money for haredi education from coalition funds

The Finance Ministry claimed that the funds it was seeking had already been approved before the war but hadn't been transferred yet.

 Thousands of haredi students are studying core curriculum subjects online.

A unified coalition – until it shatters into a million pieces

INSIDE POLITICS: Joining Netanyahu carries both risks and opportunities, but that is not of any concern to Gantz, since he isn’t doing any of this for his own political advancement.

 Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a plenum session in the Israeli parliament on October 16, 2023.

Will Israel's government collapse in the new year? - opinion

I still feel that the goal should be an authentic national unity government, if by some miracle new elections could be held soon. But as long as Benjamin Netanyahu is around, that won't happen.

 SUPREME COURT President Esther Hayut is flanked by other justices at the High Court hearing on the reasonableness standard law, last week.

Israel will be torn apart without a judicial reform compromise - editorial

It could take weeks or months for the justices to arrive at a ruling. And when that eventually arrives, one thing is sure – half of Israel will not be satisfied.

Israelis protest against the current Israeli government and their planned judicial reforms, in Tel Aviv on February 18, 2023.