Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward Israel’s V15 Uses Barack Obama-Style Ground Game To Oust Benjamin Netanyahu
When he goes door to door in this city handing out campaign materials, Shai Gal doesn’t tell people to vote for Labor, Meretz or other liberal parties vying for support ahead of Israel’s March 17 election. He just asks one question: Do you want to replace Bibi? So far, he says, he’s heard yes. “Bibi…
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The Schmooze Israelis Pull Super Bowl All-Nighter
Getty Images There were wings, beers, giant TV screens, and football fans wearing New England Patriots sweatshirts and Seattle Seahawks jerseys. If not for the fact that it was 1 a.m. and former Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid stood in the center of the bar, it could have been mistaken for Anytown USA. Most Israelis…
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Fast Forward Israel Left Resurgent as Campaign Kicks Into Gear
(JTA) — Stav Shaffir was angry. The 29-year-old firebrand is known for her outbursts, which have gotten her kicked out of multiple Knesset hearings in the past year. But when she rose in the Knesset on Jan. 21 to answer Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett’s charge that she is post-Zionist, her rebuttal went viral….
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Opinion Bibi’s Challengers Spoof Cartoonish Election Ad
(JTA) — Remember that Hillary Clinton ad from 2008, the one where it’s 3 a.m. and the White House phone is ringing? The spot, an attempt to highlight Clinton’s superior experience compared to then Sen. Obama’s ostensible naivete, didn’t do much to save the Clinton campaign, which lost the Democratic primary that year. But that hasn’t…
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Fast Forward Arab Woman Makes Israel History by Running for Far Right Jewish Home Party
(JTA) — Outside the Moriah Synagogue in this central Israeli city, boys in ritual fringes and girls in long skirts handed out fliers for the dozens of candidates running in the Jan. 14 primary for the Jewish Home party, a right-wing, modern Orthodox faction. Religious voters trickled in and out of polls in the synagogue…
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Fast Forward Shimon Peres Says Immigration to Israel Shouldn’t Be Response to Hate
(JTA) — Former Israeli President Shimon Peres said he is confident in France’s ability to fight anti-Semitism on its own soil. Immigration to Israel, he said, should be encouraged for positive reasons, not only as a response to persecution abroad. “We call on Jews to immigrate to Israel when there’s no crime and no other reason,”…
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Food Aspiring to Most Orthodox Career — as Chefs
(JTA) — Five haredi Orthodox men are standing around a large wooden table crowded with bowls of chopped tomato, garlic, carrots and greens, their ritual fringes poking out from under their aprons. Each is wielding a large chef’s knife. Their instructor, wearing an embroidered chef’s outfit and grasping a raw chicken thigh, tells his charges…
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The Schmooze Push Your Way to Front Like Bibi
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a knack for embroiling himself in political sideshows during foreign memorial services. He entered Israel’s latest tempest in a teapot earlier this week, attending the march for victims of France’s terror attacks even though French President Francois Hollande asked him not to. Israeli media outlets are now…
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