Yesh Atid MK Ofer Shelah: 'Jewish and democratic is an oxymoron'

Nearly thirty years ago, the Knesset passed a law banning from Knesset elections parties that refuse to accept the 'Jewish and democratic nature' of the State of Israel. The law targeted, and was used to ban, Rabbi Meir Kahane HY"D's (May God Avenge his blood) Kach party from the 1984 Knesset elections.

The Central Elections Committee voted 18-10 today to bar Rabbi
MelrKahane’s extreme

Ketzaleh: Government agreed to destroy eight communities near Shchem (Nablus) as part of 'interim agreement'

Former National Religious Party MK Yaakov Ketzaleh Katz is calling upon the Jewish Home party (the successor to the National Religious Party) to depose party chairman Naftali Bennett on the grounds that Bennett has agreed to an interim agreement with the 'Palestinians' that would see eight established Jewish communities around Shchem (Nablus) destroyed and their inhabitants expelled at the end

Coalition crisis ahead: Livni complains to Israel Radio that 'Jewish Home' hinders peace

You could have seen this coming a mile away. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who is leading the 'peace talks,' complained to Israel Radio on Tuesday that having the 'Jewish Home' party in the coalition is 'hindering peace.'

Israel’s lead negotiator in peace talks with the Palestinian
Authority urged Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday to replace
the religious-nationalist Bayit Yehudi

Pollard blasts Israeli government over terrorist release

Jonathan Pollard, who has been imprisoned in the United States for the last 28 years for spying for Israel, has spoken out for the first time since his imprisonment. In a JPost op-ed, he blasts the Israeli government for releasing terrorists.

Over the last six decades,
Israel’s leaders and its judiciary have practiced the art of political
expedience to such a degree that Israel is now the

Ayelet Shaked avoids responsibility

The Jewish Home party's Ayelet Shaked has written a letter sharply criticizing the release of 'Palestinian' terrorist murderers as a 'concession' to get the 'Palestinians' to come to the 'negotiating' table. There's just one small problem. She wrote the letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry. The last time I checked, Kerry does not work for Israel and does not represent us. Shaked's party

An 'unparalleled' disgrace, but to leave the government over it?

Jewish Home party MK Nissan Slomiansky slammed Sunday's cabinet decision to release 104 terrorist murderers just to induce the 'Palestinians' to come to the table and talk. But he didn't slam his own party for continuing to sit in the government that made that decision. He slammed the Americans and the West.

“The government’s decision is an unparalleled disgrace,” Knesset
Finance Committee

This is rich: 'Equalizing the burden' comes back to bite National Religious

One of the big campaign planks of the Jewish Home party - the heir to the National Religious Party - was 'equalizing the burden.' The Jewish Home party called loud and clear for 'all' Israeli citizens to do three years in the IDF, or in national service if they could not serve in the IDF. The Jewish Home party was so adamant about that plank, that it conspired with Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party

Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home party) MK calls on party to leave coalition

Jewish Home party MK Yoni Chetboun has called on his party to leave the coalition if the release of 104 'Palestinian' terrorists is approved by the cabinet on Sunday.

Bayit Yehudi Yoni Chetboun, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs
Committee, speaking at the demonstration taking place outside the PM's
office, called for his party to consider leaving the coalition if the
proposal to free