Keshet Neev

Knesset and political correspondent for the @Jerusalem_Post

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Naftali Bennett presented his stance on Netanyahu’s pardon request and called him most accountable for the October 7 Hamas attacks:

https://t.co/JHtLhSPAWW

Full filmed in-depth interview at the B’Yachad headquarters to be released soon.

[Zvika Klein צביקה קליין @ZvikaKlein]

¹ "I don't want to see him in jail. I think he should go home."

Bennett calls Netanyahu the man most responsible for October 7, and still says he'd back a pardon, as long as it comes with an exit from politics.

Interview by Keshet Neev and Herb Keinon at B'Yachad HQ for The Jerusalem Post.

📸 Marc Israel Sellem

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Political affairs: Moti Leitner, head of the new Haredi Public Party, wants to encourage mandatory service and introduce core curriculum studies in ultra-Orthodox schools.
Written by @Keshet_Neev.
https://t.co/9sBQ7LG01J

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Full story out now:

https://t.co/w2MiylWjz4

[Zvika Klein צביקה קליין @ZvikaKlein]

33 years old. Hasidic. A software engineer who enlisted in the IDF. Deputy mayor of Beit Shemesh. And now Moti Leitner wants into the Knesset, demanding a slot on the UTJ and Shas lists.

Keshet Neev interviewed him in our Jerusalem Post studio this week.

For once, the argument about haredi Israel is coming from inside it.

Friday, in Frontlines and on Jpost.

Photos by Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post

[Zvika Klein צביקה קליין @ZvikaKlein]

33 years old. Hasidic. A software engineer who enlisted in the IDF. Deputy mayor of Beit Shemesh. And now Moti Leitner wants into the Knesset, demanding a slot on the UTJ and Shas lists.

Keshet Neev interviewed him in our Jerusalem Post studio this week.

For once, the argument about haredi Israel is coming from inside it.

Friday, in Frontlines and on Jpost.

Photos by Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post

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Watch: Bezalel Smotrich tells The Jerusalem Post that the Religious Zionist Party will not seek electoral alliances and does not plan to run with Itamar Ben-Gvir.
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https://t.co/2Y1tidxkEG

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Exclusive: Yashar Party leader Gadi Eisenkot would preserve the Law of Return if elected prime minister, head of the party’s olim integration initiative, Alex Rif, told The Jerusalem Post.
Reporting by: @keshet_neev
https://t.co/ptVby89BLn

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The Knesset passed the Torah study law on Monday night, in its second and third readings. Critics say it can encourage draft evasion while the IDF is short of soldiers.

A separate bill would freeze arrests of Haredi draft evaders.

@keshet_neev followed the story.

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Yair Lapid pledged on Monday that the next government would "repair Israel," as other opposition party leaders vowed to repeal the coalition's recent controversial legislation.
Reporting by: @keshet_neev
https://t.co/lwWSS5EoV2

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MK Avigdor Liberman said that Netanyahu is a "burden" to Donald Trump, and the source of Israel's falling status in American public opinion.
Interview by @keshet_neev
https://t.co/SDGNEIq4Op

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Political Affairs: The trend of Eisenkot growing stronger each week brings him closer to being the biggest party in the opposition bloc, setting him up to potentially oust Netanayhu and placing the Bennett-Lapid alliance under pressure.
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Crazy

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An October 7 Massacre conference is set to be held in Toronto in November by a branch of an organization banned by Canada for being a terrorist front.

Masar Badil, a branch of Samidoun, said it wanted the event to "form a response" to the possibilities opened by October 7.

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IDI's @AssafShapias with @keshet_neev
“Stopping controversial legislation during election periods, that’s mostly a very established custom,” Shapira said. “The Knesset’s legal adviser has also said that’s how things should work. But it’s not formally anchored in law.”
“So the question is whether the coalition will nevertheless try to continue legislating during the election period.”

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@Jerusalem_Post @keshet_neev Very interesting article! For anyone wondering how Knesset dissolution and early elections works, we've got an explainer that breaks it down. https://t.co/VMxveW0cEC

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In this episode of The Deep Dive, Jerusalem Post host Jacob Laznik sits down with Jerusalem Post Knesset and political correspondent Keshet Neev to unpack one of the most consequential weeks in Israeli politics in a long time.

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Bennett is climbing in the polls. Lapid agreed to drop to third on the list. Smotrich called partnering with an Arab party worse than October 7. Is Benjamin Netanyahu's nearly 15-year Likud dynasty finally cracking?

https://t.co/qxETKvpdmp

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After merging with Lapid ahead of the upcoming elections, I spoke with Bennett this week on his alliance, along with plans to form a new government and oust Netanyahu.

Full interview here

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Exclusive: Former prime minister Naftali Bennett unveiled in a Wednesday interview with The Jerusalem Post his plan to bring one million new olim to Israel over the next decade.
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https://t.co/Qrnupe3FTH

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Checkout my colleague @keshet_neev 's interview with Naftali Bennett, the main challenger for Israeli PM in upcoming elections: https://t.co/rFC3f2JNYK

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Watch the extended version of @andersoncooper's interview with Rachel Goldberg-Polin, an American Israeli mother whose son, Hersh, was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, and then executed.

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² Ben-Gvir’s argument is direct: if Israel had taken harsher measures years ago, including the death penalty for terrorists, the country might not have faced the October 7 massacre.

The full @Jerusalem_Post interview by @keshet_neev
https://t.co/NoRmz4Grbo

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¹ Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is making the case for a post-October 7 doctrine built on force, deterrence, and executions for terrorists. In a new Jerusalem Post interview, he says the old approach failed.