Posts Tagged: Benny Gantz
Three Israeli Elections Reconfirm Two Basic Facts
JNS.org - It took Israeli politics nearly a year to get back to square one. That’s the basic fact to understand about the third round of...
Netanyahu Claims Gantz Connected to ‘Terror Supporters,’ as Blue and White Pushes Law to Prevent PM From Forming Government
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted his chief rival on Wednesday as Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party began to push an initiative to prevent...
Netanyahu Claims ‘Enormous Victory,’ Pledges to Form ‘Nationalist Government’
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed an "enormous victory" in the country's 2020 elections on Monday night, saying he planned to form a “nationalist government...
Israeli Exit Polls Show Advantage, but Not Outright Majority, for Netanyahu and Right-Wing Bloc
The exit polls from Israel's elections on Monday showed an advantage, but not an outright majority, for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party and the...
Mired in Stalemate, Israel Holds Another Election on Netanyahu’s Future
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought re-election on Monday under the weight of an imminent corruption trial, with the country's third ballot in less than...
Rivals Netanyahu and Gantz Make Their Final Pitches to Voters Before Monday Elections
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his chief rival, Blue and White party Chairman Benny Gantz, made their last pitches to voters on Saturday, with...
Benny Gantz: ‘We Must Move Forward’
JNS.org - As Israel’s third election campaign in under a year draws to a close, I would like to remind the Israeli public why we...
Stalemate in Israeli Polls Ahead of Monday’s Election
As Israelis prepare to vote in parliamentary elections on Monday, there's seems no end in sight to the political stalemate that has gripped the country...
Top Challenger Gantz Plays Character Card Against Netanyahu
Former military chief Benny Gantz portrays himself as a straight-shooter who will restore simple values to Israel if he wins power in the country's third election in...
Bibi vs. Tibi: Israel’s Netanyahu Fires Up Base by Targeting Arab Lawmaker
"Bibi or Tibi" is the election slogan hammered home at nearly every opportunity on the campaign trail by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Rhyming, pithy and playing...
Polls, Gaza, Netanyahu, and Gantz
JNS.org - During live coverage of the bombardment of southern Israel by Islamic Jihad rocket fire on Monday, a Red Alert siren sent a TV...
Why Israel’s Electoral Stalemate Isn’t a Disaster
JNS.org - Think Israelis are excited by the prospect of going to the polls for the third time in a year to elect a new...
Netanyahu Rival Gantz Dismisses Israeli PM’s Debate Challenge as ‘Spin’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief political rival, former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, said on Wednesday that he would not take up Netanyahu’s...
Warren, Sanders, Bloomberg and Buttigieg — Israel’s Standing in Today’s Democratic Party
Elizabeth Warren has run out of steam, danken gott (thank God), her professorial persona full of numbers that she equates with ethics failing to resonate with Iowa or...
