![Kadima Party leader Shaul Mofaz speaking at a news conference in Petach Tikvah about Kadimas reasons for leaving the Israeli government coalition, July 17, 2012.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/303f76a39f669c283a46c0c000486f7c.jpg)
Israeli political constellation realigns as Kadima quits government
By Uriel Heilman, JTA
• Published July 17, 2012
![Benjamin Netanyahu and Shaul Mofaz.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/40206a3def02e4e7a34763935815c5f0.jpg)
Netanyahu promises ‘historical law’ for equal sharing of national service burden
By Israel Hayom, Exclusive to JNS.org
• Published July 12, 2012
![Guards carrying the coffin carrying of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir from the Knesset on the way to his funeral at Mount Herzl, Israels national cemetery, July 2, 2012.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/e21e7a81e22f98401092be098ade5403.jpg)
Shamir remembered for saying little, standing strong
By Ron Kampeas, JTA
• Published July 2, 2012
![Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in his office in Jerusalem in 1992, one week before he lost the elections to the Labors Yitzhak Rabin.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/669cd08aa339c3b019646c50f11eda6e-1.jpg)
Yitzhak Shamir, former Israeli prime minister, dies at 96
JTA
• Published July 1, 2012
![President Obama drops by a meeting between National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz of Israel, third from left, in the White House, June 21, 2012.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/0242b25844e9d18c7be5adf8df43319b.jpg)
Mofaz grabs attention in U.S. with hopes of peace talks
By Ron Kampeas, JTA
• Published June 25, 2012
![A haredi Orthodox man watching Israeli soldiers at an army ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Feb. 22, 2012.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/5c6af164d66efc353c5dd2e975395090.jpg)
For new Israeli coalition, haredi army exemptions issue is front and center
By Uriel Heilman, JTA
• Published May 9, 2012
Editorial: Man in the Mirror
Published May 9, 2012
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Kadima Party chairman Shaul Mofaz at a joint news conference in the Knesset announcing that Kadima has joined the coalition government, May 8, 2012.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/d521c7f35fc8b53500547e77d02530b1.jpg)
Likud-Kadima coalition nixes early elections
By Mati Wagner, JTA
• Published May 8, 2012
![Tzipi Livni, the outgoing leader of Israel’s main opposition Kadima Party, speaking to the media after losing to Shaul Mofaz in the primaries, March 27, 2012.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/f984611bffab8b22cbe653db1f001ec1.jpg)
Livni’s fall followed meteoric political rise
By Mati Wagner, JTA
• Published April 4, 2012
Israeli lawmakers inaugurate Diaspora caucus
JTA
• Published March 21, 2012
Knesset passes law banning underweight models
JTA
• Published March 20, 2012
Israeli court rules that lesbian couple can both be child’s mother
JTA
• Published March 5, 2012
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