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Zehava Galon defeats Yair Golan in race for Meretz leadership

Zehava Galon, who chaired the Meretz Party in the past, re-elected to the post and will lead the party in the elections to the 25th Knesset.

Meretz holds primaries for party leadership

Meretz members vote on Knesset list, party leader, as former Meretz chief faces Zehava Galon faces off with Dep. Economy Min. Yair Golan.

2022 Elections:

Son of revered settlement leader joins Shaked and Hendel

Amitai Porat, former CEO of the Religious Kibbutz Movement and son of Rabbi Hanan, will be number three on the 'Zionist Spirit' list.

Matan Kahana:

Matan Kahana: 'Avi Maoz is an extremist who derides anyone he disagrees with'

Maoz shoots back: "Kahana desperate to remain in limelight, but no one believes him anymore."

Galon blasts Yair Golan:

Zehava Galon blasts Yair Golan: What I forgot, Yair Golan hasn't learned yet

Meretz leadership candidates debate each other on TV. Galon: What Golan is proposing is not Meretz.

Joint List MK: Ra'am party willing to sit with Netanyahu and Rabbi Druckman

MK Ayman Odeh, chair of the Joint Arab List, predicts Israeli PM Lapid will lose the elections. 'The public is smart.'

Former colleague slams defector: 'Loss of ideology'

Yamina's MK Nir Orbach slams former minister Matan Kahana over move to center-left party: 'Loss of ideology.'

Ramah Day Camp:

Summer with 'joyful Judaism' and love to Israel

We spoke with the Dir. of the Ramah Day Camp about the challenges and opportunities in a camp led together by Israelis and Americans

One last baseball game before leaving to join the Israeli army

Hours before their departure to Israel we met soon-to-be IDF soldiers at a New York Yankees game.

'Joseph's Tomb is ours'

Arabs riot as Jewish worshipers enter Joseph's Tomb. MK Ofir Sofer: Terror won't deter us

IDF returns fire after terrorists open fire at Jewish worshipers. Head of Samaria Regional Council: The people of Israel are strong.

Welcome home

'It's a dream come true'

Israel National News accompanied the Nefesh B'Nefesh new immigrants who shared their excitement, feelings and hopes. Watch.

Watch live:

Watch live: 225 new Olim arrive in Israel on Nefesh B'Nefesh flight

225 new immigrants from North America land at Ben Gurion Airport on Nefesh B’Nefesh chartered Aliyah flight through El Al Israel Airlines.

Inspiring: We're excited to come home

We met new immigrants at JFK: A mother with her family, a boy joining the army and a girl reuniting with her lone soldier sister.

'Olim are taking part in the most important thing that Jews can do'

Asaf Zamir, Consul General of Israel in New York, speaks with Nefesh B'Nefesh immigrants at JFK airport.

Rabbi and his wife make aliyah with pre-WWII Torah from Poland

Rabbi Alvin and Esther Reinstein are moving from New Jersey to Efrat with a Torah scroll from pre-WWII Poland.

Yoaz Hendel:

Yoaz Hendel: Benny Gantz pressured me to form a government supported by the Joint List

Yoaz Hendel opposed to government that relies on the Joint List, but will also not help Netanyahu establish a right-wing government.

Lapid:

Lapid: Israel knows how to put its hands on every terrorist organization

Lapid and Gantz meet with members of the IDF General Staff Forum and Chief of Staff Kohavi at the Kirya in Tel Aviv.

Likud holds primaries as its 140,000 members head to the polls

Likud opens 110 polling stations, allowing around 140,000 party members to decide who will represent the party in the next Knesset.

The surprising statement of the chairman of the Jewish Home

Jewish Home chairman Yossi Brodny at election conference in Petah Tikva: I will never sit in a government with Ben Gvir and Smotrich.

Lapid mocks Netanyahu:

Lapid mocks Netanyahu: He learned how to fill his gas tank after we lowered the prices

Medical interns disrupt PM's speech at Yesh Atid conference in Tel Aviv: Lapid: Don't interrupt them, don't throw them out.

Shirly Pinto will not run in Shaked's Zionist Spirit Party

Israel's first ever deaf MK says she will continue to focus on promoting people with disabilities from outside the Knesset.

Netanyahu promises: 'We'll lower taxes, significantly lower cost of living'

Likud leader MK Netanyahu presents list of concrete steps to lower cost of living, basic necessities.

Religious Zionism, Otzma Yehudit, nearing agreement on joint run

Major disagreement centers around who would be the best candidate for the joint party's seventh spot.

2022 Elections:

Michal Shir, once a Likud MK, is now leaving New Hope for Yesh Atid

"What won't people do for a Knesset seat!" responds Likud's Miri Regev.

Payments to terrorists to be deducted from PA tax revenue

PA gave 660m shekels to terrorists & their families over past year. Govt to deduct amount from revenues transferred to PA.

Watch: Women of the Wall provoke worshippers - again

Women of the Wall activists clashed with worshippers after leaving the area specially designated for their private service.

Benny Begin steps away from politics

Benny Begin announces he won't run for the Knesset due to the fact that he is about to turn 80, but will remain a member of New Hope Party.

Bereaved mother:

Bereaved mother: 'This was no traffic accident, they hit me intentionally'

'The vehicle made a sharp turn towards me and accelerated, I tried to avoid it but it rammed into us,' mother of boy killed in ramming says.

Shaked to INN:

Shaked to INN: We preserved the values of the right

Minister Shaked excited about alliance with Yoaz Hendel, as well as with Supreme Court ruling on Mitzpe Kramim.

'The Zionist spirit won'

Shaked celebrates with residents of Mitzpe Kramim: The Zionist spirit won

Interior Minister visits Binyamin region town after Supreme Court overturned ruling that would have seen dozens of homes demolished

Yamina, Derech Eretz, 'close to signing agreement'

Negotiating teams from Yamina, Derech Eretz, say they are 'close' to signing agreement on joint run. 'We'll bring a new spirit to Israel.'

New Hope MK gives birth to twin girls

MK Sharren Haskel announces birth of twin girls.

Netanyahu's spokesman to run in Likud primaries

Yonatan Urich will compete for the 41st spot on the Likud slate, which is reserved for a representative of the Tel Aviv district.

Pres. Herzog on crisis with Russia: Speak less

Israel's Pres. Herzog, former Jewish Agency chairman, speaks for 1st time about crisis with Russia. 'There are things silence is good for.'

Woman recovers from stone attack: "One millimeter and I might not be here"

Shir Lev, who was injured in a stone attack, in her first interview with INN: "My face is far from looking the way it was; rehab is lo

Pro-Palestinian activists blast Danny Danon: Zionist garbage

Former Israeli Ambassador to the UN raises ire of pro-Palestinian Arab activists after taking part in conference on sovereignty.

Ben Gvir in Bat Yam:

Ben Gvir in Bat Yam: I want unity, the offers we received are insulting

MK Ben Gvir speaks to Otzma Yehudit activists in Bat Yam: The feeling is that Smotrich does not want to run together.

Likud MK Amsalem:

Likud MK Amsalem: Lapid is an 'uneducated boor, unfit to be PM'

Likud MK claims that instead of serving his country in the IDF, Lapid "drank beer & hung out with girls."

Did a Labor minister flout the military censor?

Diaspora Min. Nachman Shai says, 'State of Israel, IDF, acted tonight in Syria.'

Lapid:

Lapid: It's not a choice between me and Netanyahu, it's a choice between future and past

Prime Minister to members of his Yesh Atid party: These elections could be an opportunity for us to get out of this complicated situation.