Government Insight Into the Operation and Being Prepared in Jerusalem
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Knesset expert Jeremy Saltan gives a unique government perspective including Israel’s response to Hamas’s ‘multi-front’ attacks towards Israel. They end with Saltan talking about the situation in his specific Jerusalem suburb including rocket attacks that were close.
Radio Link from Yesterday’s interview:
http://yishaifleisher.com/radio/radio-beiteinu-preparing-response/
Yishai is joined by Knesset insider Jeremy Saltan to talk about the situation in the government including the dissolving of the Likud-Beiteinu coalition. They move on to talk about government preparations to a response to attacks from Hamas in Gaza including rocket attacks affecting a large part of the country.
Israel’s President is elected by the 120 MKs but many polling companies have polled the public’s opinion anyways.
These are the results of the latest Panels Poll:
Reuven Rivlin 35%
Dan Shechtman 30%
Dalia Dorner 9%
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer 5%
Meir Sheetrit 4%
Dalia Itzik 4%
* Nominations:
The largest group was the 49 MKs that didn’t sign for anyone, that included coalition leaders Netanyahu, Lapid, Bennett & Liberman.
Rivlin received 16 signatures: 7 Likud, 5 BY, 2 YA, 1 Shas, 1 UTJ.
Ben-Eliezer’s 13 signatures: All of them from Labor.
Sheetrit’s 11 signatures: Livni 6, 4 YA, 1 Shas.
Itzik’s 11 signatures: 4 Arabs, 2 Meretz, 2 YA, 2 YB, 1 Shas.
Dorner’s 10: 5 YA, 2 Arabs, 2 Meretz, 1 Shas.
Shechtman’s 10: 2 Meretz, 2 YA, 2 BY, Likud 1, Shas 1, Kadima 1, Arabs 1.
KnessetJeremy Take:
* The race in my eyes is who will meet Rivlin in the second round. There have never been six candidates on the ballot before, it is possible that some will drop out. It seem certain that there will be a second round. The new law states that a simple majority of votes will win, previously you needed to go through as many rounds as possible until a candidate won 61 votes.
* I’ll note that most MKs don’t take Shechtman or Dorner seriously, in order to obtain the 10 signatures necessary to make the ballot they had MKs who are supporting other candidates sign their registration forms. If they remain in the race they will receive single digits.
* I think it is too early to determine who will end up going head-to-head with Rivlin. It will be either Ben-Eliezer, Sheetrit or Itzik.
Many people think it will be Ben-Eliezer, but I don’t see anti-Rivlin YB or YA MKs voting for him, he couldn’t even get 1 signature from any other non-Labor opposition MK.
Others think it will be Itzick, but the only way she got on the ballot was with the support of 4 Arab MKs, not exactly the largest Knesset power base.
The key will be the 19 Yesh Atid MKs. In the nomination process they gave their signatures for 5 candidates (Rivlin, Shitrit, Itzick, Schectman, Dorner). No YA MK signed for Fuad. Lapid didn’t sign for anyone.
Mevaseret Zion Immigration & Absorption Committee Member Jeremy Saltan pointed out that “the land was donated by American Jews to the Jewish Agency, not for a real estate project. Now the land has switched hands to their pension fund, they are looking for a minimum of NIS 295m. for the property.
“Something doesn’t smell right, it is possible we are talking about ‘Holyland: The Sequel,’” he said.
Saltan also responded to Immigration and Absorption Ministry representatives who said they do not have open slots in other centers and there is no plan to build new ones.
“What does it say about the State of Israel that we are closing down the largest absorption center in the country? What are we going to do with the impending aliya from the Ukraine and France?” he asked.
Jeremy Saltan is quoted in two articles as part of the Jerusalem Post’s Transparency in Knesset series:
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/The-info-is-there-but-who-can-figure-it-out-349934
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