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Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz and Yisrael Beiteinu Party head Avigdor Lieberman hold a joint statement after meeting in Ramat Gan on March 9, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Israel lawmakers propose multiple bills designed to oust Netanyahu

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The COVID-19 pandemic cast a pall over the swearing in of Israel’s 23rd Knesset on Monday, with the Knesset’s 120 lawmakers being sworn in three at a time to avoid spreading the disease, while...
Israel's Joint Arab List Party head Ayman Odeh speaks to the media outside his home in Haifa, a day after the Israeli general elections, March 3, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Joint List unanimously backs Gantz for Israeli premiership

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All 15 lawmakers of the Joint List alliance of Arab and Arab-majority parties on Sunday recommended Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin as Israel’s next prime minister, marking...
Meretz Party head Nitzan Horowitz participates in an event in Beersheva on Feb. 29, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Center-left push for legislation to stop Netanyahu forming a government sparks outrage

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Meretz Party chairman Nitzan Horowitz on Wednesday called on Blue and White to form a government on the basis of a law that would prevent a prime minister under indictment from forming a government. According...
Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Gantz to supporters: ‘I share your pain and disappointment’

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Blue and White leader Benny Gantz told supporters in Tel Aviv on Monday night that he shared their “pain and disappointment” as exit polls indicated a convincing win for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Likud Party event in Lod, Israel, on Feb. 11, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Netanyahu builds momentum in final days of third campaign

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After 11 years of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, many Israelis have claimed that they are tired of Benjamin Netanyahu. Or are they? Just days before a third round of national polls in less than...
View of an election campaign billboards showing Israeli Prime Minister and head of the Likud Party Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White head Benny Gantz, in Tel Aviv on Feb. 24, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Final polling shows Likud, Blue and White tied with slight edge to right-wing bloc

With elections mere days away the last Israel Hayom-i24 News poll before Israelis go to the ballot box projects a dead heat between ruling party Likud, and challenger Blue and White, but says that overall, the...
Tevel students outside the Israeli Knesset with Alon Sternberg, far left, the program's director. Photo by Or Tsfati.

Israeli teens learn public diplomacy skills to serve as ambassadors abroad

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Itay Green, 16, wants to improve the way Israel is perceived by people outside the country. When traveling with his family to visit British relatives in London or even to the United States, the Tel...
Election campaign posters in Tel Aviv depict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud Party, as well as the leaders of the Blue and White Party, including Benny Gantz, second from left, Sept. 2019. Photo by Adam Shuldman/Flash90.

For first time in round three of elections, Netanyahu pushes past Gantz in polls

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Were Israeli elections to be held today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party would secure 33 Knesset seats, giving the ruling party a slight edge over challenger Blue and White, projected to win...
View of an election campaign billboards showing Israeli Prime Minister and head of the Likud Party Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White head Benny Gantz, in Tel Aviv on Feb. 24, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

For third time in row, Netanyahu and Gantz race towards an inconclusive finish line

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Israel has entered the home stretch of its third election within a year, and with polls showing some possible shifts in public opinion, the parties have begun their last-ditch efforts to gain votes. Blue and...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on Feb. 16, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Netanyahu: Blue and White won’t follow through on Trump peace plan

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said over the weekend that his Likud Party’s main rival, Blue and White, would not follow through on the U.S. “Peace to Prosperity” plan if it wins Israel’s March...