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Israeli Arab Knesset member Ayman Odeh casts his ballot during Israel's April 9, 2019 election. Photo by Meir Vaknin/Flash90.

At least 27 percent of Israeli Arabs voted for Zionist parties in recent elections

Now that the newly elected Israeli Parliament has been dissolved due to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s inability to form a government, Israelis, including Israeli Arabs, will be going back to the voting booths on Sept....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Israeli parliament members during a vote on a bill to dissolve the current Knesset in Jerusalem, May 29, 2019. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Is this the start of the post-Netanyahu era?

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In an unprecedented move, the Knesset that was elected in April voted to dissolve itself this week. That means Israelis will have yet another election in September. But what happened in Israel wasn’t about...
Photo: Israeli 2013 election ballots (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Oy vey! Israel to go through another election

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Negotiations to form the next government of Israel became a game that nobody was going to win. There’re only losers in Netanyahu’s attempt to form again a right-wing government after the April 9 elections....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman at a graduation ceremony of the National Security College on July 13, 2016. Photo by Flash90.

Likud MKs blast Lieberman, warn he will ‘pay the price’ for scuttling coalition talks

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Likud Knesset members railed against Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigor Lieberman in Israeli media on Thursday morning, hours after his refusal to join Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition forced Israel into new elections next...
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, seen after their announcement in a press conference in Tel Aviv on Dec. 29, 2018, of the formation of a new political party. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

As elections loom, Bennett and Shaked get set to make a comeback

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As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition talks come down to the wire, Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked met in Tel Aviv to plan out their course should new elections...
Israelis count the remaining ballots from soldiers and absentee voters one day after national elections, April 10, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Latest poll shows new elections would strengthen Likud, right-wing bloc

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If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to secure a coalition before the Wednesday deadline and Israel goes to another round of elections, Netanyahu’s Likud Party will win again, according to a survey conducted Sunday...
The Plenum Hall at the Knesset, during a discussion to cancel the 2013 law limiting the number of ministers on May 20, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

A guide to the perplexed: What happens if Netanyahu fails to form a government?

Can Netanyahu form a government by Wednesday? If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to stay on as premiere, he has to get the Knesset’s approval for a newly formed government, in the form of a...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman at the Knesset on June 1, 2016. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

It’s time for Netanyahu’s coalition partners to start governing

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On April 9, the Israeli electorate made a clear choice: to empower Benjamin Netanyahu to remain Israeli prime minister. Netanyahu received more Knesset mandates than ever before, five more than in the previous election,...
Israel's Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem in 2017. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi/POOL/Flash90.

Report: Netanyahu offered Kulanu Party leader Kahlon foreign-ministry position

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered Kulanu Party leader Moshe Kahlon the Foreign Ministry portfolio on Sunday, reported Israel’s Channel 13. The two, who have not met since the April 9 election, are expected to convene...
Likud suporters at a Likud party rally for the jewish holiday of Passover in Tel Aviv, on March 22, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90

Habit voting aided Netanyahu despite all

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Now that the actual elections (though not the coalition-building process) are behind us we can stop and think about what we have all just been through here in Israel, and what awaits us in...