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Ballots at a voting station in Jerusalem on Sept. 17, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Tentative March 2, 2020 date set for unprecedented third Israeli elections

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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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Internal Affairs Minister Gideon Sa’ar attend a special session marking a year since the death of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, at the Knesset, on July 9, 2013. Photo by Flash90.

Likud’s Sa’ar dismisses Netanyahu’s call for a direct election for the premiership

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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,...
Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman speaks with the media during a faction meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem on Dec. 2, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Lieberman says Israel headed back to elections in 2020

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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....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Education Minister Naftali Bennett during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament on Nov. 13, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Why is there no new election in Israel?

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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...
Supporters celebrate as Jerusalem mayoral candidate Moshe Lion arrives at his campaign headquarters as he leads the early counting in the municipal elections for Jerusalem on Oct. 30, 2018.

Votes are in for municipal elections, Jerusalem readies for a Nov. 13 showdown

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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,...
A woman casts her ballot at a voting station on the morning of Israel's municipal elections, on Oct. 30, 2018, in Efrat. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.

Israelis across the country vote in municipal elections

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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...