Results for “Knesset”

…rty consultant and speechwriter, Bob Shrum. We began working with all of them well before the no-confidence vote in the Knesset. Philip had a wonderfully British understatement and reserve. Stanley, with his eyeglasses and demeanor too, came over as slightly professorial. With Bo...

…capital of a country which neither Egypt nor any other Arab country even recognized. He met Begin, and he addressed the Knesset with a call for peace. It is impossible to convey to Israelis who did not live through the birth of the state, and our tumultuous early decades, the po...

…has. The Sephardi Orthodox party was still not prepared to rejoin the cabinet, but it did promise a “safety net” in the Knesset to ensure we would not have to worry about no-confidence votes while confronting the Palestinian violence. I knew Shas’s support would waver if there wa...

…ure of Sadat emerged, there was spontaneous applause, and a serenade from Israeli army trumpeters. Even before Sadat’s Knesset address the next day, I understood that his visit, his willingness to make the first, bold move toward a possible peace, marked just the beginning of a...

…y didn’t get tougher on Arafat’s noncompliance with anything resembling a de-escalation, Israel would do SO. Since the Knesset had returned before my trip to Washington, I’d needed first to make sure my government would survive. The obvious, or at least the most mathematically s...

…eyll send us a receipt by fax.” The consensus was: forget Assad. Keep the Golan. In fact, before I left for the US, the Knesset voted on whether it supported my attempt to negotiate an agreement with Syria. We could muster only 47 votes, 14 short of a majority. An opinion poll fo...

…vernment, which had already been skeptical of the Egyptian revolution. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Knesset committee on May. 30, "Global terrorist organizations are meddling [in Sinai] and their presence is increasing because of the connection between Sinai a...

…rribly prophetic his words would turn out to be. I was not only new to cabinet politics. I wasn’t even a member of the Knesset. But in addition to naming me as head of a major ministry — in charge of everything from citizenship and immigration to planning, zoning, and the fundin...

…ure of Sadat emerged, there was spontaneous applause, and a serenade from Israeli army trumpeters. Even before Sadat’s Knesset address the next day, I understood that his visit, his willingness to make the first, bold move toward a possible peace, marked just the beginning of a...

…of the Labor Party. Still, since the election had been only for Prime Minister, Labor remained the largest party in the Knesset. Mathematically, Arik might be able to cobble together the required 61-seat majority with an assortment of smaller parties. But without Labor as ballast...

…e Now activists had planned a counter- protest, but Rabin denied them permission. Still, anti-settlement members of the Knesset and other Israeli peace activists did get clearance to march from Jerusalem to Hebron. 221 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011692

… in the kirya and both he and another rising Likud politician to whom I became closer, Dan Meridor, were members of the Knesset’s defense committee. But from the day I returned to the Israeli government in June 2007, there was growing tension between us over dealing with the Syri...

…idn’t expect it any time soon. When it did, it began by accident. A few weeks after our separation, I was visiting the Knesset for a discussion about fixing Israel’s broken electoral system. In the audience was a member of one of the civic associations pressing for reform: Nili...

… that Shimon Peres might bring Labor back to power. There was no prospect he’d win an outright majority in the 120-seat Knesset. No one had ever done that, not even Ben-Gurion in his political heyday. From 1948, Israel’s political landscape had been populated by at least a dozen-...

…journalists. Galei Tzahal’s alumni included some of the country’s top media figures, and more than a few members of the Knesset. Within weeks, a lobbying effort was underway to “save” the station. I went to see Misha. He agreed that, from a military and budgetary standpoint, clos...