Tag: Israeli Elections
Netanyahu has no chance to form a government, says rival Gideon Sa’ar
Likud Knesset member Gideon Sa’ar attacked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, saying the Likud leader would not be able to form a government even with a third round of elections.
A tentative date of March...
Tentative March 2, 2020 date set for unprecedented third Israeli elections
Likud, and Blue and White, have agreed that barring a last-minute breakthrough by Dec. 11, Israel will go to its third elections of 2019 on March 2, 2020.
The proposed election date must still pass...
Likud’s Sa’ar dismisses Netanyahu’s call for a direct election for the premiership
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party rival Knesset member Gideon Sa’ar on Sunday dismissed the idea of holding direct elections as a way of solving the country’s political crisis.
Such a proposal, Sa’ar told Kan radio,...
Lieberman says Israel headed back to elections in 2020
Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that Israel is headed to its third round of elections with the course of a year.
“Elections are coming,” Lieberman told the Yediot Achronot daily in an interview....
Why is there no new election in Israel?
The machinations of some of the leading politicians in Israel are sufficiently transparent to make it possible to draw one’s own conclusions irrespective of what they tell us. Thus, for example, Avigdor Lieberman’s decision...
Votes are in for municipal elections, Jerusalem readies for a Nov. 13 showdown
Israelis woke on Wednesday morning to the tallies of municipal elections conducted across the country on Tuesday, which showed that Jerusalem would face a runoff for mayor between secular candidate Ofer Berkovitch and haredi-backed candidate Moshe Lion,...
Israelis across the country vote in municipal elections
Israelis headed to the polls on Tuesday to vote in municipal elections, with 863 candidates vying for mayoral positions and 3,400 people campaigning to be elected heads of regional councils.
Voting booths opened at 7...