Likud Party News

Israel's fifth election in less than four years exasperated many voters, but the turnout was reported at the highest levels since 2015.

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett, Lapid, and Ra`am (United Arab List) chairman Mansour Abbas signed an agreement at a meeting on Wednesday night Abbas had added last-minute demands following multiple conversations with Netanyahu

Israel`s Channel 12 TV news reported that initial results showed Netanyahu won a landslide victory with about 70 per cent of the votes while his rival, Gideon Saar, won about 30 per cent.

Netanyahu, 69, has been in power for the past decade, with Likud at the helm of a parliamentary bloc.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was expected to be questioned on Monday over two separate corruption allegations, after the Prosecutor General`s Office asked the police to carry out an investigation.

A key Israeli minister said today that the government is at risk of collapsing if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's narrow coalition is not enlarged soon.

Israel`s Interior Minister Silvan Shalom on Monday announced his resignation after he was accused of sexual harassment last week.

Israeli Vice Premier Silvan Shalom, a veteran politician in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu`s right-wing Likud party, resigned on Sunday following allegations that he had sexually harassed several women during his career.

The 2014 law was seen by many Israelis as amending the historic injustice of an exemption handed to the ultra- Orthodox in 1948, when Israel was created.