Posts Tagged: Israel election 2022
Why the World Media Must Wait to Criticize New Israeli Government
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government is set to be sworn in Thursday, nearly two months after the November 1 Israeli election. It feels like the...
The Anti-Bibi Resistance Is Playing With Fire
JNS.org - Like the Democrats who went into the streets in their millions the weekend Donald Trump was inaugurated president in January 2017, Benjamin “Bibi”...
Taking Dark Comfort in an Israeli Arab’s New York Times Lament
JNS.org - As an Israeli-American Jew who has lived in Israel for 20 years, it was with a certain dark comfort that I read Israeli-Arab...
The Abraham Accords Enter a New Era
JNS.org - The many planned reforms of Israel’s incoming government in the security, defense, diplomatic and religious arenas—of which I am mostly supportive—are going to...
Gleefully Abandoning Israel
JNS.org - It’s in fashion to freak out about the supposedly “supremacist” Israeli government that might be formed in the coming weeks. A coalition led...
Israel Joins the West’s Culture Wars
JNS.org - With the result of its election this week, Israel has joined other Western countries in a notable current trend: A revolt by the...
Seeking Military Aid, Ukrainians Nervously Eye Prospect of Netanyahu’s Return to Power in Israel
The prospect of a right-wing government in Israel headed by Benjamin Netanyahu has been greeted cautiously in Ukraine, whose democratic government has frequently appealed to...
Biden Shouldn’t Try to ‘Save’ Israeli Democracy From Election Victors
JNS.org - The votes in Israel’s latest Knesset election are still being counted, but the exit polls confirmed the worst fears of the Biden administration....
A Guide to the Top 13 Israeli Political Parties Running in the 2022 Knesset Elections
In June 2022, following a number of legislative defeats for the “change government” headed by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, Israel’s parliament was dissolved, with...
Honor the Election Results, Whatever the Outcome
JNS.org - Election day for Israel’s 25th Knesset has arrived, and the fifth election campaign in less than four years is coming to an end....
The Danger of Another Israeli Electoral Deadlock
JNS.org - Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli, the head of Israel’s falsely dubbed “center left” Labor Party, doesn’t even bother these days to temper the radicalism...
In a Contentious Election Season, Israelis Should Look to Our Shared Covenant
JNS.org - A lovely piyyut sung during the Yom Kippur evening service beseeches the Creator to “look to the brit (covenant) and not to the...
The Coming Election Campaign Will Be the Ugliest in Israel’s History
JNS.org - With the collapse of the current government, Israel is facing yet another election. It will be the fifth in three-and-a-half years, cost enormous...
The Fall of the Israeli Government and the Upcoming Election
JNS.org - The moment that some Israelis have been dreading and others happily anticipating finally arrived on Monday. Though the announcement by Prime Minister Naftali...
