Meanings of yisrael in English

He secured eight seats for his Yisrael Beitenu party, making him a potential kingmaker.

Gideon Yisrael, who has worked the fields of central Israel for 40 years, called the development a game-changer.

The five parliamentary seats that Yisrael Beitenu won in the April ballot are crucial to Netanyahu gaining a parliamentary majority.

Addressing Knesset members from his Yisrael Beiteinu party, the hardline foreign minister named two large West Bank outposts threatened with demolition.

Israel's Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem September 4, 2016.

But discord between his ultra-Orthodox allies and former Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman's secular nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party resulted in a deadlock.

Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beitenu party, is fiercely secular and hawkish on issues relating to security and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The hardline foreign minister told activists from his Yisrael Beiteinu party yesterday that the optimism from both Israel and Palestinian officials was premature.

Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party pledges to get tougher with Palestinians, including Israeli Arab citizens and supports Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank.

Asked about the remarks, Israeli Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz declined to discuss the U.S. election campaign but was unapologetic about Israel's methods.

Opinion polls show Labour taking up to 20 of parliament's 120 seats compared with about 34 for Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu.

Israeli prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu's party secured its first coalition partner yesterday, reaching an initial agreement with the ultra-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, an official said.

Yisrael Katz, who also serves as Israel's intelligence minister, declined at a news conference to say whether Arab states had agreed to join his initiative.

Avigdor Lieberman, an ally-turned-rival of the prime minister and leader of the right-wing secular Yisrael Beiteinu party, could end up holding the balance of power.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman speaks at a conference for young members of his Yisrael Beiteinu party in Tel Aviv December 13, 2012.

Yisrael Beitenu's 11 legislators will give Olmert's coalition control of 78 seats in the 120-member parliament - a particularly strong majority in Israeli politics.