Tag: Israel Elections 2019
Likud members asked to sign pledge to back Netanyahu as Likud Party leader
Supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are drawing up a document for Likud Knesset candidates to sign, which states that they will only back Netanyahu as party leader.
The move comes in response to...
With election season (again) descending upon Israel, can anyone break the political stalemate?
With Israel facing its second election in less than a year after failing to achieve a government in April, significant changes to the composition of its political parties were just waiting to be made.
On...
Shaked shakes up politics again with new merger on Israeli right
Israel’s politics got another major shakeup in recent days—this time on the right, with the announcement of the merger between Ayelet Shaked’s New Right Party and Jewish Home. Like similar moves on the left...
Ayelet Shaked to lead Union of Right Wing Parties following last-minute deal
Jewish Home Party leader Rabbi Rafi Peretz agreed on Sunday to cede the top slot in a united electoral list to New Right Party leader Ayelet Shaked, sealing a deal that will join the...
Can Israel’s new left-wing alliance shift the political landscape?
With the deadline to file party lists ahead of the September election fast approaching, a major shake-up within Israel’s leftist could bolster its camp after weak results in the April election.
On Thursday, the newly...
New Left-wing bloc to feature Meretz, Barak and Labor breakaway Shaffir
Former prime minister Ehud Barak, Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz and breakaway Labor Knesset member Stav Shaffir have announced the creation of a new left-wing bloc—the Democratic Camp—following two nights of marathon meetings.
“The founders of...
Egos, maneuvers, muddy Israel’s coalition building
The promise implied in the return to politics of Ehud Barak – former chief of staff, prime minister and minister of defense – isn’t likely to materialize. The disclosure about his association with American...
Netanyahu’s accomplishments will stand for decades
Currently at the head of a caretaker government between two elections in the same year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history, breaking the record set by...
As Netanyahu strides by a longevity record, his biggest challenges may lie ahead
History will be made on July 20 as Benjamin Netanyahu, 69, becomes the longest-serving prime minister that the nation—only two years older than he—has seen.
Israel’s founding father and first premier, David Ben-Gurion, served in...
Netanyahu: ‘We’ve turned Israel into a rising global power’
At the end of the week, Benjamin Netanyahu will mark a personal achievement and become the longest-sitting Israeli prime minister after the country’s first leader and founding father David Ben-Gurion.
“We have turned Israel into...