The two new-immigrant parties - Yisrael B'Aliyah, headed by Housing Minister Natan Sharansky, and Yisrael Beiteinu, headed by MK Avigdor Lieberman - are close to some form of merger. The two leaders met today and agreed to cooperate in the coming municipal elections, as well as in the upcoming budget deliberations and vote. Regarding further cooperation, talks will continue. Lieberman told Arutz-7 today that he speaks in the name of the united National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu list, with the hope of forming a large faction of the entire nationalist camp...



Negotiations continue between Israel and the European Union regarding the marketing of Jewish products from in Yesha (Judea, Samaria and Gaza) to Europe. The EU is willing to consider an Israeli-offered compromise, according to which Israel will agree to special benefits for products made in the Palestinian Authority. In exchange, according to the proposal, special taxes will not be levied on Jewish products...



The National Labor Court ruled today that Jerusalem's sanitation workers must go back to work tomorrow, after four days of striking, in order to collect the city's trash. The municipality had turned to the court with the claim that the growing trash heaps represented a security danger...