Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Opinion Bibi Faces Grim Math of Polls
Exit polls are just out in Israel, and the results are, simply put, astonishing. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s list — an alliance between his Likud party and the further-right Yisrael Beytenu — was placed with 31 of the Knesset’s 120 seats according to all three polls that were conducted. The Yesh Atid party headed by…
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Israel News With Hopes and Fears, A Divided Israel Votes
All across Israel and in the settlements of the West Bank, Israelis of all social stripes went to the polls. Here are a few or their stories.and their divergent visions of what might emerge from the election. After a lethargic campaign by their politicians, Israeli voters confounded widespread expectations of a lethargic election in response,…
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Opinion Whatever Happened to Kissing Babies?
The Israel Land Administration is a notorious government bureaucracy, whose precise functions are a mystery to most Israelis. And yet, one day before polling opens here in Israel, the whole country is talking about it. The reason is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday that the popular minister Moshe Kahlon, who aid ahead of…
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Israel News Rising Chorus Backs Israeli Annexation of West Bank
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been conspicuously silent during the election campaign regarding his plans for the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But some of his close associates have been very open about theirs. Despite their reputation as two of Netanyahu’s favorites in the Likud party, Yuli Edelstein, a Cabinet minister, and Ze’ev Elkin, chairman of…
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Opinion I Love Bibi — No, I Love Him More
In the past, Israeli political parties have gotten themselves in to trouble for slurring their opponents during campaigns, with election authorities clamping down on what they see as negative campaigning. Strangely enough, there’s the opposite problem this time — a contest to campaign for Bibi. Given that it’s pretty much taken-as-given that Prime Minister Benjamin…
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Opinion Israel’s Election Race for Second Place
So, we all kind of know who is going to take top spot in Tuesday’s general election in Israel — Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud-Yisrael Beytenu alliance. But who is going to come in second spot? Some Israelis were starting to eulogize the Labor party after its poor performance in the last election in 2009,…
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Israel News Naftali Bennett Is Face of Israel’s New Right Wing
In 2010, the Forward profiled Naftali Bennett, who has emerged as the biggest surprise of the current Israeli election campaign. He was a man with a vision — but also with a problem. The pro-settlement politician was starting to appeal to the hearts and minds of his constituency, but plenty of would-be followers had trouble…
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Israel News New Faces of Israel’s Election
Israel’s January 22 general election looks unlikely to bring a change in who will be heading the government. But it does promise to shake up the Knesset by bringing a large, and in many cases controversial, cohort of new players into politics. Among them are some hard-nosed ideologues whose likely ascension to Israel’s parliament is…
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