Tag: Israel Elections 2021
Shas leader confident Yamina, New Hope will ‘return to the fold’
Heading into Israel’s March 23 election, Israel’s political scene is volatile—but Shas leader Aryeh Deri, a seasoned politician of 30 years, seems to know what the day after the election has in store.
In an...
Can left and right unite to topple a forever prime minister?
As Israel heads to the polls for the fourth time in the course of two years later this month, interest in the voting among American Jews is not great. After more than a year...
Netanyahu touts achievements from record vaccinations to boosting regional ties, security
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his case for why he believes—again, or rather, still—that he is Israel’s strongest candidate to head Israel’s next government in the fourth round of elections in two years....
Israeli diplomats abroad kick off voting for 24th Knesset
Voting for the 24th Knesset begins on Wednesday night as 104 polling stations in 99 Israeli embassies and consulates across the globe open their doors to some 4,000 diplomats and representatives stationed abroad.
The Israeli...
Robbing Israel’s far-left Labor leader of plausible deniability
Much of the Israeli right is furious about the Supreme Court ruling on Sunday that Labor Party candidate Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin is kosher to run for a Knesset seat in the March 23 election.
The ruling overturned the Feb....
Israel’s Supreme Court paves way for controversial Labor candidate’s Knesset run
Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday overturned a ruling by the Central Elections Committee that banned Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin, No. 7 on the Labor Party’s Knesset slate, from vying in the March 23 election.
Mara’ana-Menuhin, an Arab-Israeli filmmaker from...
Bennett nixes joining coalition led by Netanyahu or Lapid
Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett on Wednesday reiterated that he will not back Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or join the center-left bloc of Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid after the March 23 elections.
With...
Netanyahu’s challenger Gideon Sa’ar may cut Lincoln Project consultants loose
Israeli prime minister candidate Gideon Sa’ar and his New Hope Party, which hired four of the founders of the Lincoln Project as campaign consultants a month ago, says the consultants’ further employment with the party is...
‘Loyal student of Herzl and Jabotinsky,’ Sa’ar hopes to become Israel’s next premier
For the fourth time in two years, Israel will go to elections on March 23 to elect its 24th Knesset. While early polling points to a similar inconclusive fate with the previous three, there...
Why Ze’ev Elkin thinks it’s his time in the Israeli political spotlight
At the end of December, Likud minister and longtime confidant to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Ze’ev Elkin stunned the Israeli political community by announcing that he was leaving the party. Elkin decided to...