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Opinion Israeli Politics Enters Silly Season as Elections Loom
Israel’s snap parliamentary elections are just three months away, but the campaign is still stuck in the doldrums. You might call it the silly season. The parties in the outgoing Knesset have received their first round of public campaign funding and started flailing away at each other, but nobody knows yet which ones will be…
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News With Elections Looming, Tunisia Is an Arab Spring Success Story — For Now
For an old Moscow hand who had the privilege to cover the last days of the Soviet Union for the Forward 25 years ago, Tunis feels a bit like perestroika. From every restaurant and hotel lobby, television screens blare commentators of all persuasions arguing passionately about politics with raised voices and rapid-fire gesticulations as the…
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Fast Forward Tunisia Jewish Leader Backs Secular Candidate in Presidential Race
In advance of the second round of Tunisia’s presidential elections, the head of the country’s Jewish community endorsed the campaign of secularist hopeful Beji Caid Essebsi. Joseph Roger Bismuth, president of the Jewish Community of Tunisia, or CJT, gave Essebsi his support in an interview published Thursday by the news site AfricanManager.com ahead of the…
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Opinion Why Tunisian Jews Can’t Wait To Vote in an Arab Election
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman Jaco Halfon spent the last week of November glued to his computer at home in L.A. Presidential election results were coming in from his homeland of Tunisia. Halfon, a Tunisian citizen, wanted to make sure that he was up-to-date and that readers of his popular Jewish website Harissa got the relevant…
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Opinion Tunisians Turn ‘Ashkenormative’ Judaism Upside Down
A Tunisian Jewish family on the island of Djerba / Getty Images The Tunisian Ambassador to the United Kingdom recently came to the Chabad here in Oxford to give a Shabbat dinner talk. Needless to say, this event was not an ordinary Shabbat dinner by any means. After a meal of traditional Tunisian foods, the…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Slams U.N. Plans To ‘Dictate’ on Palestinian Statehood
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said before talks on Monday with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry he would defy any U.N. move to “dictate” a timeframe for withdrawal from land Palestinians seek for a state. Before the two convened in Rome, Israel put the United States on notice it expected Washington to exercise its…
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Fast Forward Tzipi Livni Joins Forces With Labor for Vote
Former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said she will run on a joint ticket with the Labor Party in Israel’s upcoming elections. Livni, who heads her own left-of-center Hatnua party, made the announcement of the new center-left slate with Labor chairman Issac Herzog on Wednesday. “We’re uniting for the good of the country, for the better…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Makes Bread-and-Butter Push
In nearly nine years as Israel’s prime minister spread over three terms, Benjamin Netanyahu has been a security hawk, promising to do whatever it takes to combat the threat from Palestinian militants or a nuclear-armed Iran. But as he opened his campaign for a fourth term ahead of elections set for March 17, Netanyahu stepped…
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