Jerusalem :: Israel
| 4 days ago
Minister-without-Portfolio Ami Ayalon, who was nearly elected Labor Party chairman last year, plans to announce he is leaving the party at a press conference in Tel Aviv on Sunday morning. The former OC Navy and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) director...
Tags: Labor Party, Ami Ayalon, Meretz party, Ayalon Dumping Labor, wing party, Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, press conference, minister ami, ayalon announced, Michael Melchior, Shaul Mofaz, Include Ayalon, Ehud Barak, Meretz, ayalon quitting
Tel Aviv :: Israel
| 14 days ago
Livni told Mofaz that she plans on appointing him a senior minister should she win the elections and would also serve as her locum tenens. Mofaz, for his part, told Livni he would support her throughout the campaign irrespective of his role in her...
Tags: prime minister, Tzipi Livni, Shaul Mofaz, election
Jerusalem :: Israel
| 21 days ago
Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz's position as second in the party to Kadima leader Tzipi Livni will likely be guaranteed, after threats by some of his supporters to politically destroy Kadima MKs who backed Livni in last month's party leadership primary....
Tags: set, Kadima, Shaul Mofaz
Tel Aviv :: Israel
| 22 days ago
Legal advisor says party's code forbids practice. 'Any change in the primaries' system requires a full referendum,' he adds Kadima's legal advisor, Attorney Eitan Haberman, said Tuesday that after examining the party's code it seems Kadima will not be...
Tags: elections, prime minister, Kadima, Shaul Mofaz
Jerusalem :: Israel
| about 1 month ago
Tawfik Jamal also had his driver's licence suspended, police said. Mr Jamal had been held on suspicion of reckless endangerment, speeding and harming religious sensitivities. The incident, which happened in the ethnically mixed city of Acre, sparked some...
Tags: Yom Kippur Jewish-Arab, United Arab List-Ta, Tawfik Jamal, Shaul Mofaz, acre riots, house arrested
Jerusalem :: Israel
| about 1 month ago
Twenty-four days after he announced that he was taking a break from politics, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz returned to Kadima on Sunday night and surrendered to party leader Tzipi Livni. Mofaz told his loyalists over the last few days that he...
Tags: Shaul Mofaz, Kadima, minister shaul
Jerusalem :: Israel
| about 1 month ago
Mofaz and the MKs expressed their adamant opposition to the option of a narrow government that will rely upon the Arab parties as a safety net. In addition, the sides discussed the return of Mofaz to full political activity but he has not yet made a...
Tags: Shaul Mofaz, safety net, narrow government
Jerusalem :: Israel
| about 1 month ago
Ynet reported recently that should Mofaz decide to fully resume his political activity, she would offer him the Foreign Ministry portfolio and the role of acting prime minister. Mofaz's decision to return to the Transportation Ministry, which was first...
Tags: Tzipi Livni, New Kadima, Ehud Barak, Labor Party, Shaul Mofaz, Mofaz Will Run, Israeli, chairman ehud, kadima chairwoman, Israel Maimon
Tel Aviv :: Israel
| about 1 month ago
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz spoke on Saturday for the first time since Livni narrowly defeated Mofaz in the Kadima primaries two weeks ago. Livni's aides said she asked Mofaz to stay in politics and join her government,...
Tags: Livni Offers Mofaz, Shaul Mofaz, Tzipi Livni, foreign minister, senior position
Jerusalem :: Israel
| about 1 month ago
The meeting was the first political event hosted by Mofaz since he announced his temporary resignation from politics one week ago. MK Ronit Tirosh said she was attending the event in order to tell Mofaz, “Soldier, cut your vacation short.” Among the other...
Tags: Shaul Mofaz, Ronit Tirosh
