Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that he refuses to attend an upcoming Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on the defense budget. Netanyahu explained that, although he respects the democratic process, he will not le

PM Netanyahu has announced that he will decline the invitation of Kadima leadership candidate, Chairman of the Knesset Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, Shaul Mofaz to attend the committee meeting. “The government does not serve the Kadima agenda,”

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz accused the Defense Ministry of embarking upon "a campaign of threats and intimidation" since the government approved cuts to its budget, during Sunday morning's weekly cabinet meeting. "In a democratic state, the army doe

Kadima will collapse with MK Shaul Mofaz at its head, says Kadima leader Tzipi Livni in a wide-ranging interview taking stock of her three years as opposition leader. If chosen to lead Kadima again, Livni would not appoint Mofaz as her number 2 this time

MK Meir Sheetrit announced Wednesday that he will not run in primary elections for leadership of the Kadima party. "70 - 80 percent of voters have a positive opinion of me, but I haven't been able to turn my experience into votes," he said at a press con

The IDF is short of NIS 3.3 billion, Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Yair Naveh told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday. Meanwhile, Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar criticized the Defense Ministry’s constant “campaigning against g

Dichter, who also ran for the party’s leadership in 2008, will once again face off against current party leader MK Tzipi Livni and MK Shaul Mofaz. In the 2008 primaries, Dichter only achieved 6.5 percent of the vote and came in fourth, behind Livni, Mofa

Kadima leadership candidate Avi Dichter differentiated himself from his competition on Sunday when he announced that he would bring the party into Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's coalition immediately if he wins the March 27 race. Incumbent Kadima le

The party's primaries will be held in late march. Dichter will face Kadima Chairwoman Tzipi Livni and MK Shaul Mofaz. (Moran Azulay) MK Avi Dichter has officially announced his bid for Kadima's chairmanship.

Mk Avi Dichter (Kadima) will formally announce his candidacy for Kadima leadership Sunday morning. Sources around MK Shaul Mofaz hope he will soon remove his candidacy and avoid taking votes away from Mofaz.

JERUSALEM — Many of Israel’s allies appear to dislike Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Some — including Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, and, it has been rumored , President Barack Obama — also entertain fantasies about seeing

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense chairman MK Shaul Mofaz (Kadima), who is bidding for his party's leadership, accuses Ministry of Defense officials of making cynical use of the Merkava tank in their ongoing fight against the Ministry of Finance over t

TEL AVIV -- Last week in Amman, Jordan, negotiations -- or, rather, discussions about whether to resume negotiations -- between the Israelis and the Palestinian Authority ended. No discernible progress had been made concerning the West Bank, home to appr

JERUSALEM — A victory by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a snap primary held by his Likud party has prompted speculation that he is consolidating his position with a view to possible early elections this fall. Final returns released Wednesday showed

ISRAELI PRIME minister Binyamin Netanyahu was expected to win yesterday’s Likud party primary by a comfortable margin last night, fighting off a challenge from far-right contender Moshe Feiglin. In the last primary in 2007, Mr Feiglin, a religious settle

Former MK Omri Sharon announced on Tuesday that he would work on behalf of Kadima leader Tzipi Livni in her March 27 party primary race against Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Shaul Mofaz. Sharon, the son of the party's founder, fo

Kadima MK Shaul Mofaz launched his campaign for his party's chairmanship on Monday, saying Kadima's first priority when it forms the next government would be "to do everything so that there'll be one law for everyone." Speaking at a press conference, Mof

It is one of those peculiarities of the Israeli political system that right now, under a stable government and a strong Prime Minister, there is almost a consensus in the Knesset that a date for early elections will be called soon. Conventional wisdom su

Member of Knesset Shaul Mofaz officially launched his campaign for leadership of the Kadima party on Monday. At a news conference to mark the event, he said that if he is elected prime minister, he will offer a "very senior position" to current Kadima le