Tag: Israel Elections 2020
Blue and White Party’s Gantz denies wrongdoing amid investigation reports
Israeli opposition leader and Blue and White Party head Benny Gantz denied wrongdoing on Thursday following media reports that an investigation was being launched into a deal between a company he had previously led...
Israeli delegations abroad kick-start third general elections in 12 months
Israeli diplomats and state employees stationed abroad began on Wednesday to cast their votes in Israel’s third election in fewer than 12 months.
The first vote was cast by Israel’s ambassador in Wellington, New Zealand, on Wednesday...
Challengers Gantz and Lapid attack Netanyahu-Trump relationship
Blue and White Party leaders Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid are establishing their diplomatic credentials in the immediate run-up to Israel’s March 2 election with an insult to a U.S. administration that has arguably...
Netanyahu challenges Gantz to a debate before elections
With Israel’s March 2 general elections just around the corner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday challenged his main rival, Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, to a live debate.
During an interview...
Netanyahu’s trial to start just weeks after Israeli elections
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial will start on March 17, just two weeks after Israel holds its third election in less than a year, the country’s Justice Ministry announced on Tuesday.
The Justice...
Winds of Mideast change worth remembering at the ballot box
The significance of two events that have been upstaged this week by the Hebrew media’s incessant coronavirus coverage cannot be overemphasized—particularly with the fast approach of the March 2 Knesset elections.
One was the rejection...
Israel’s United Torah Judaism Party is eyeing national-religious voter base
As Israel’s March 2 elections near, the parties’ race to poach voters from each other has not skipped the ultra-Orthodox factions, which are now setting their sights on the national-religious voter base.
Recent polls predict that both...
Elections will determine whether Israel seizes or squanders a historic opportunity
The “deal of the century” presented by my friend, U.S. President Donald Trump, offers the State of Israel a historic opportunity that won’t return: to protect and defend our country, determine our borders, and...
Netanyahu urges Facebook founder to ensure platform not biased against Likud
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Wednesday evening with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, to express his discontent over the giant tech’s alleged bias against Likud Party voters in previous elections, according...
Report: Netanyahu seeks to push Otzma Yehudit over electoral threshold
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s advisers are holding talks with the head of the far-right Otzma Yehudit Party to try to find a way for Otzma to pass the electoral threshold in Israel’s March...