Will Coalition Instability Delay U.S. Peace Plan? | 11/19/18

19/11/2018 24 min
Will Coalition Instability Delay U.S. Peace Plan? | 11/19/18

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Coalition crisis averted, for nowContinuing concerns that the ruling government will collapse and fall back to early national elections were partially assuaged this morning after Habayit-Hayehudi party leaders Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked announced that they will not be leaving the coalition. Likud-led coalition to remain intact Davidi Hermelin, President of the Int’l Center for Public Diplomacy in Israel speaking at ILTV Studio with deeper analysis on the narrowly averted crisis in the coalition. 3. Sharp ‘across-the-board’ budget cuts approved Despite internal coalition troubles, the cabinet ministers today were still capable of agreeing to a string of massive budget cut across the board, in order to pay for wage and pension increases for non-military security personnel and the cabinet approved a 1.35% cut from each ministry over the next twenty years. Will coalition instability delay U.S. peace plan? Over the past 2 years, a trump white house team, specifically led by white house aide Jared Kushner and middle east peace envoy Jason Greenblatt has worked on a Middle East peace plan that they hope will get both Israeli participation and Arab world support. Two Argentinians arrested for ties to HezbollahTwo Argentinian citizens were arrested for suspected ties with Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group last Thursday. And this happened just days ahead of the 13th G-20 summit that is set to take place in Buenos Aires at the end of the month. ILTV’S correspondent Joy Gavillon is here with the details. BDS activist arrested for tirade on air-IndiaProminent international human rights attorney and BDS activist Simone O’broin is in hot water this week but not with Israel. O’broin is embroiled in a conflict with air-India now after a video of her drunkenly threatening the airline and its staff went viral online. EL-al diverts flight to Athens due to ShabbatIt seems Air India wasn’t the only airline to have trouble with unruly passengers recently, as El Al airlines said this weekend that it intends to file an official complaint against Jewish passengers aboard flight #002 from NYC to Tel Aviv last week after they allegedly became violent with the flight crew. Living the nomad lifeRaul Cabrera, Documentary Director speaking at ILTV Studio about how he has been traveling, directing and filming in over 86 different countries. Ministers advance vaccination lawIsraeli Ministers advanced a bill that would give Israeli authorities the power to ban any child, parent, teacher or person who has not been vaccinated against specific diseases from all educational frameworks. The ban would be applied to all schools, from kindergartens through universities. 10. Thousands swabbed to find donor for Roni CohenIn August a young woman was diagnosed with Leukemia just two months before her wedding day. A grass-roots effort began in order to help find a rare bone marrow match for the bride-to-be and now, Roni Cohen reportedly received her life-saving transplant from her brother and is now recovering well. 11. Hippo homeowners insuranceIsraeli-founded Insur-Tech startup, Hippo, uses modern technology to provide proactive and comprehensive homeowners insurance and the California based company has now been reaching out to its clients in northern California who have been affected by the ongoing devastating wildfires and ILTV’S Doriel Mizrachi joins us now to tell us why.12. Hebrew word Of The Day: BITUAH | ביטוח= INSURANCELearn a New Hebrew word every day. Today’s word is "bituah" which means "insurance" See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.