Posts Tagged: Israeli election
The Leftist Pathologies That Drive Criticism of Israel
In 2009, Jay Michaelson, writing at the Forward, penned a controversial piece entitled "How I'm Losing My Love For Israel" in which he noted that it was...
Likud’s Big Victory is Israel’s Big Loss
Those of us who regularly observe and try to make sense of the madness sweeping the Middle East often find ourselves, perhaps out of desperation,...
Newly Elected Arab Knesset Members Visit With Abbas in Ramallah
JNS.org - Newly elected Arab members of the Israeli Knesset visited with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Tuesday evening. The delegation included...
Jewish-Arab Coexistence Against the Odds
The Israeli election shed some light on the increasingly local -- rather than national or regional -- priorities of the 1.7 million Israeli Arabs. It...
Israeli Elections – Then and Now
The first Israeli election I experienced was in the summer of 1961. I was in Yeshivah in Jerusalem, and heard both Ben Gurion and Begin...
Iran Says Israeli Political Parties Are ‘All Aggressors’
JNS.org - An Iranian official said the country isn't moved by the result of the Israeli election, in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud...
Israeli Election Sees Highest Voter Turnout Since 1999
JNS.org - Tuesday's voter turnout to elect Israel's 20th Knesset was 71.8 percent, the highest figure since 1999, when 78.7 percent of eligible Israeli...
Analysis: Likud’s Unexpected Success Shows Israeli Voters Still Place High Priority on Security
JNS.org - Israeli television exit polls on Tuesday night showed that while the country's national election remains too close to call, Prime Minister Benjamin...
Netanyahu Warns Right-Wing is ‘in Danger’ as Left Buses Arab Voters to Polls
Jerusalem Post - Funding from foreign governments to get more Israeli Arabs to vote worked, which means all right-wing people must make sure to go...
Modern Orthodox Rabbi Seeks to Change Israeli Rabbinate
Amid the surprising Israeli election results that empowered political parties calling for a change to the ultra-Orthodox's grip on Jewish life, a reform-minded modern Orthodox...
How One British Paper Decided to Depict Living Jews on Holocaust Memorial Day
In my 2010 report published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs about antisemitic cartoons, I noted that political cartoons often have more of...
Left-Wing Activist: Israeli Relocation From Beyond Green Line Not Realistic
A Kibbutz movement leader and left-wing activist said removing Israeli residents from communities located beyond Israel's pre-1967 borders (the "Green Line") is no longer a...
Israel’s Emphatic Response to Obama’s Thinly Veiled Threat
There is much to be said about Bloomberg Columnist Jeffrey Goldberg's recent report on President Obama's current attitude towards Israel, where he claimed that the...
Netanyahu: We Must Form Broadest Coalition Possible
JPost - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that he sees many partners to share his goals with him, as he delivered a speech following...
