Aluf Benn (Haaretz)
By Aluf Benn (Haaretz)
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News Analysis: Israel’s election results look like the coronavirus never happened
The television exit polls show that the main event of the past year – the coronavirus – didn’t influence Israeli voters at all. What hasn’t happened to us since the last election? Lockdowns, quarantines, more than 6,000 deaths, face masks, cellphone tracking by the Shin Bet security service, huge deficits, soaring unemployment, Saturday night demonstrations…
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Fast Forward Facing Election Defeat, Barak Quit Before Vote
Ehud Barak understood that he had no chance of crossing the electoral threshold in the January election so instead of conducting a campaign that would end in public humiliation and debts, he decided to cut his losses and forgo contending as the head of the Atzmaut party. If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants him as…
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Fast Forward Yitzhak Shamir Spied on Me
I didn’t know Yitzhak Shamir, but he knew me – or at least tried to. In January 1989, HaIr editor Meir Schnitzer and I appealed against a Chief Military Censor’s decision to the Israeli High Court, and won. The court gave permission to publish an article I wrote on an upcoming change in the leadership…
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Fast Forward Olmert Had Detailed Plan for Land-Swap With Palestinians
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert proposed giving the Palestinians land from communities bordering the Gaza Strip and from the Judean Desert nature reserve in exchange for settlement blocs in the West Bank. According to the map proposed by Olmert, which is being made public here for the first time, the future border between Israel and…
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Fast Forward How Netanyahu Beat Livni: The Branding Behind Israel’s New PM
They struggled against each other for months, trying to win more and more votes for their own candidates. They came up with complicated statistical formulas and paid close attention to focus groups while fashioning the perfect message that would lure undecided voters. Their recommendations served as a basis for various strategies that eventually led to…
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