Posts Tagged: Israeli Elections
80 Knesset Elects Endorse Netanyahu as Prime Minister
Jerusalem Post - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will receive an endorsement from 80 MK-elects over the next two days as the 12 factions in...
Opinion: The Israeli Political System Needs a Complete Overhaul
The political system The January 22, 2013 Israeli election highlighted the urgent need to overhaul Israel's entire political system, not just...
Israeli Population Analysis Reveals Higher Voter Turnout Than Initial Reports
Voter turnout in the recent Israeli elections was initially reported at 68 percent, but that figure is actually 73 percent based on a deeper analysis...
Iraqi Ally of Israel on Hagel, “This is Not a Minister of Defense, But a Minister of Chaos” (INTERVIEW)
On Friday I spoke with former Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al Alusi, who has championed counter-terrorism cooperation and normalized relations between Iraq and Israel. This Arab...
Wheeling and Dealing Continues as Speculation About Next Israeli Government Gains Traction
Speculation continues as to what the next Israeli government will look like as reports surface and are just as quickly denied. Early Friday...
Report: Abbas Seeks Meeting With Lapid
Israel Hayom - The Palestinians see the results of Tuesday's election in Israel as a chance to break the stalemate in the peace...
Netanyahu Faces New Challenges
The unexpected election results have created daunting challenges for Prime Minister Netanyahu. Many Israelis dislike Netanyahu. He has personality deficiencies and, like every Israeli leader...
Israel’s Fractional Reality
In Israel, the devil is not so much in the details as it is in the fractions. Ignore the puffy pundits on TV who have...
Naftali Bennett: Time for Change in Status Quo in Religion and State
The day after the new Israeli party Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) won 12 Knesset seats, party leader Naftali Bennett called for a change ...
Opinion: Inside the Israeli Elections
Leave it to the Israeli electorate to produce such a complicated election result that confounded most analysts' projections. In general, the election was...
Two Epistemic Closures: The GOP and Israel-Critics
What do Tuesday's election results remind us of? They should recall the result of November's U.S. elections. Against all evidence - and here I do mean all...
Israeli Elections and Palestinian Negotiations
The American politician Tip O'Neill once famously observed "that all politics is local." Had O'Neill been an Israeli, he might have added: "but local politics...
The Changing of the Israeli Guard
Israel had a party on Election Day. The weather was beautiful and people went to the beach and the parks by the tens of...
Benjamin Netanyahu to be Next Israeli Prime Minister
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will regain his position after his Likud-Beytenu party alliance won 31 Knesset mandates, followed by Yesh Atid at 19, exit polls...
