Tag: Israeli Elections
Remembering Yitzhak Shamir
As Israel enters its fourth election cycle in two years, it’s important to go down memory lane to see how we got to where we are.
The late former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s granddaughter,...
Israel’s government collapses, forcing fourth elections in two years
Israel’s government collapsed on Tuesday, forcing the Jewish state into yet another election—the fourth in the last two years.
The government automatically dissolved on Tuesday at midnight after it failed to pass a budget for...
Red-state Mizrahi Israelis don’t want liberal sympathy or solutions
Liberal American Jews are generally confused when it comes to Israelis. On the one hand, they claim to have empathy and support for Jews of color. But in order to inflate the number of...
Red-state Mizrahi Israelis don’t want liberal sympathy or solutions
Liberal American Jews are generally confused when it comes to Israelis. On the one hand, they claim to have empathy and support for Jews of color. But in order to inflate the number of...
Benny Gantz: ‘Yair Lapid can’t form a government, and he knows it’
The Knesset still has not dispersed, and a date for the next election has not been set. But the turmoil in the anti-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu camp continued unabated and even intensified over the...
Knesset moves towards dissolving unity government, possible new elections
The Israeli Knesset passed a preliminary bill to dissolve the government, paving the way for a fourth round of elections within the last two years.
The bill, which passed with 61 lawmakers voting in favor...
New Israel Fund report shows spike in donations for groups promoting left-wing parties in...
A 2019 financial report issued by the New Israel Fund (NIF) revealed that the U.S.-based NGO donated millions of shekels to leftist organizations that tried to meddle in the Israeli elections held in April...
Media polls show Yamina to grow, Likud and Blue and White to slip
Media polls released on Thursday show that if Israeli elections were held today, Yamina would grow, while the Likud and the Blue and White parties would slip.
Channel 13 News projected that Likud would win 30...
![[Former] Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett attends the launch of the Yamina Party campaign, on Feb. 12, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/F200212TN38-e1583655315336-880x495-1-324x235.jpg "MK Naftali Bennett: No guarantee of support for Netanyahu’s Likud in event of new elections")
MK Naftali Bennett: No guarantee of support for Netanyahu’s Likud in event of new...
Former Defense Minister and current Knesset member Naftali Bennett told Israel’s Channel 13 on Monday night that there was “absolutely” no guarantee that he would join a Likud-led government in the event of a new round...
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Israel’s dysfunctional electorate?
“Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit (‘And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice...