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Opinion Should I Fly Home To Vote in Israeli Elections?
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman I was exactly 18 the first time I voted in the Israeli elections. I was a newly minted soldier, uniform all fresh and stiff, with the dent of the strap of my M16 on my shoulder, waiting in line at an army base. More than anything I was welling up, filled…
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Opinion Guide to Israeli Elections as Read by a MacBook
MacBook’s Dictation function / Apple So, while messing around with my MacBook Pro, I must have inadvertently hit the “fn” button twice, thus triggering the computer’s Dictation function. I’d never tried it before, so I spoke a few sentences into it. It’s actually astoundingly good at converting speech into text. In advance of the upcoming…
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The Schmooze Need a Baby-Sitter? Bibi’s Your Man
It looks like Benjamin Netanyahu has a new career path lined up — you know, in case the Israeli elections don’t pan out. A new campaign ad released Saturday shows a couple getting ready for a night on the town. The doorbell rings. It’s the baby-sitter. Or is it? “You asked for a babysitter, you…
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Opinion Why I, an Israeli Jew, Will Vote for the Arab Party
Arab politician Ahmed Tibi addresses the press / Getty Images The general mood in Israel, ahead of the second general election in just two years, is that little to nothing is going to change. Whether you’re an admirer of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or his sworn enemy, everybody agrees that his chances of a third…
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Fast Forward Israel Issues Tenders for New Settler Homes Ahead of Election
Israel published tenders on Friday for the construction of 450 new housing units in occupied Palestinian territory, a move that critics denounced as a political gesture ahead of a March general election. Ariel Rosenberg, spokesman for Israel’s Housing Ministry, said the government was simply remarketing tenders that had failed to sell when they were initially…
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Israel News Ron Dermer Is Benjamin Netanyahu’s Man in Washington — for Better and Worse
Ambassador Ron Dermer has just taken the biggest risk of his short diplomatic career. As Israel’s envoy to Washington, Dermer would ordinarily be the man behind the scenes promoting his state’s most important foreign relationship. But the Israeli diplomat is now at center stage — both praised and reviled as the key player who, with…
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Israel News Benjamin Netanyahu Stuns Israel Backers by Embracing Republicans on Iran
Within one week, the fundamentals of the mainstream pro-Israel community have been shaken like never before. Its centerpiece legislative effort — the drive to impose new sanctions on Iran — has been frozen in place and, more importantly, the notion that support for Israel is a bipartisan issue in American politics has suffered a serious…
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Fast Forward Greek Leader Who Said ‘Jews Don’t Pay Taxes’ Named Defense Minister
Panos Kammenos, a right-wing politician who said Jews don’t pay taxes, was appointed the defense minister of Greece. Kammenos, who heads the ultranationalist Independent Greeks, was appointed to the post in the new government on Tuesday after joining the coalition of the newly elected far-left Syriza party, which won handily in Sunday’s national elections. While…
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