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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Rio de Janeiro on an official state visit in Brazil, Dec. 28, 2018. Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Bolsonaro slated for historic Israel visit one week before elections

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will arrive in Israel on March 31 for a four-day visit, Israel Hayom has learned, just one week ahead of Israel’s general elections on April 9. In closed talks with Bolsonaro during a historic...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting in the Israeli Knesset on Dec. 24, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Fact sheet: Party lists, primaries or appointment

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Does the Israeli political system confuse you? Here is a detailed look at how the parties function. Feb. 22 is the deadline for parties vying for seats in Israel’s Knesset to submit their lists of...
Israeli Minister of Sports and Culture Miri Regev speaks to the press at the sports ministry’s offices in Tel Aviv on June 6, 2018. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

Israeli minister Regev: ‘The goal: 40 seats for Likud under Netanyahu’

The Likud Party was triumphant at the right-wing Leumiada event held this weekend in Eilat, and used the gathering as a chance to drive home its campaign messages. Israel’s Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev...
Israeli Yesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid speaks in Netanya n March 19, 2017. Credit: Flash90.

Bennett projects confidence that he can take votes from Gantz and Lapid

The election strategy of the New Right party, co-founded by former leader of Habayit Hayehudi Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, focuses on attracting votes that might otherwise go to Yesh Atid or...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to supporters at Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 18, 2015, after general elections with Netanyahu claiming victory. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90

Will Israel’s new election tie attorney general’s hands?

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Mordechai Kremnitzer, professor emeritus of law at the Hebrew University, cites in his Ha’aretz column of January 10 the old story about the man who murdered his parents and then claimed clemency in court because he...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Transportation Israel Katz, Israeli Minister of Education Nafatli Bennett, and Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan in the Israeli parliament on November 21, 2018, during a Plenary Hall session. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Fragmentation of right-wing bloc puts Netanyahu leadership at risk

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Likud activists and a candidate for the Knesset in the ruling party told JNS that they were seriously concerned about the fragmentation of the right-wing bloc, and that a similar scenario played out in...
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the funeral of former Israeli minister of Defense and minister of Foreign Affairs, Moshe Arens, at Savyon Cemetery, on January 8, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

‘Dramatic announcement’ keeps Netanyahu’s legal woes atop election cycle

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In a prime-time televised address on Monday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu placed looming corruption charges against him at the center of the current election cycle, ahead of issues relating to security or...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara arrive in Brazil. January 2, 2019. Photo by Avi Ohayon (GPO).

Ahead in polls, Netanyahu’s legal troubles provide main electoral challenge

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Israel’s Channel 10 News reports that Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit is likely to announce his intention to proceed with a pre-indictment hearing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the April 9 elections. That places...
The Israeli Knesset. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Israel Elections 2019: JNS Composite Polling Average, Jan. 6

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Current update: Sunday January 6th 2018. Party New Avg      Change    Week 1 Avg    Current 1 Likud 28.8 1.2 27.6 30 2 Israel Resilience 12.8 -0.6 13.4 0 3 Yesh Atid 12.7 -0.1 12.8 11 4 Joint List 11.7 -0.7 12.4 13 5 HaYamin HeHadash 8.8 -1.6 10.4 3 6 Labor 8.2 -0.6 8.8 24 7 UTJ 6.7 -0.3 7 6 8 Kulanu 5.5 -0.1 5.6 10 9 Meretz 5.5 -0.1 5.6 5 10 Shas 5 0.2 4.8 7 11 Gesher 4.8 0.2 4.6 1 12 Yisrael Beitenu 4.5 0.7 3.8 5 13 Bayit Yehudi 2.8 -0.4 3.2 5 14 Livni 1.5 1.5 0 0 15 Other 0.7 0.7 0 0 Right-Religious Block  (current coalition) 62.8 0.4 62.4 66 Center-Left-Arab (current opposition) 57.2 -0.4 57.6 54   Note: The electoral voting threshold is equivalent to 3.25 percent of total votes,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the plenary session in the Knesset on Oct. 31, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

The left is trying to steal the election, declares Netanyahu

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu harshly criticized the left and the media in a video message published on Thursday evening in which he said that they are “putting brute, inhumane pressure on the attorney...