With the 2013 Israeli elections just a little more than a week away, The Mideast Update spoke with Jeremy Gimpel, a candidate from The Jewish Home party—or Habayit Hayehudi in Hebrew. Here is part one of excerpts from the interview:
The recent meetings in Cairo aiming to reinvigorate the Palestinian political reconciliation process appear to have made progress. They’ve made problems too. Following the discussion between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
Efforts to re-unite the major Palestinian political factions were set to continue this week in Egypt, as Cairo welcomed both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal. The Palestinian Ma’an News Agency reported that Meshaal and Abbas…
Recently a warning was issued by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the instability of governments in the Middle East, in which the political leader cited from Judaism’s Biblical reading for that week. It was from the beginning of the…
The Israel-Gaza ceasefire held up remarkably well last month, as the Israel Security Agency (ISA) reported in their monthly summary of terrorist attacks that zero Gaza rockets were launched at Israel during all of December. The quiet follows Israel’s “Operation…
Syrian President Bashas al-Assad on Sunday presented his plan for a ceasefire and political reforms in his country in a speech the government-affiliated Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said was delivered at the Opera House in Damascus. Previously it had…