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Fast Forward Victory for Benjamin Netanyahu But Hardly a Mandate in Tight Israel Vote
His party shrunk, his opponents grew and his challengers multiplied. But with the results in, it seems Benjamin Netanyahu survived the Knesset elections on Jan. 22 to serve another term as prime minister. Netanyahu faces a bumpy road ahead. His Likud party, together with the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu, fell to 31 seats in the voting…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Says Iran Is Biggest Challenge After Claiming Israel Vote Win
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an election victory speech on Wednesday, said preventing a nuclear-armed Iran would be the primary challenge facing the new government he intends to form. “I am proud to be your prime minister, and I thank you for giving me the opportunity, for the third time, to lead the state…
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Fast Forward What Are Benjamin Netanyahu’s Coalition Options After Narrow Israel Election Win?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged from Israel’s election on Tuesday poised to form its next government, exit polls showed. Netanyahu, head of the right-wing Likud party already aligned in a single bloc with the ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu group, has said he hopes to put together a broad majority in the 120-member Israeli parliament. The exit…
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Opinion What’s Yair Lapid’s Next Move?
What is Yair Lapid’s next move? The man who shocked Israel with a stunning showing in the elections could try to establish a “blocking coalition” by uniting parties that want to stop Benjamin Netanyahu from forming the next government. Labor would definitely be game for that, as would Meretz, Hadash, the Arab parties and probably…
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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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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Claims Narrow Israel Win
Hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged the bruised winner of Israel’s election on Tuesday, claiming victory despite unexpected losses to resurgent centre-left challengers. Exit polls showed the Israeli leader’s Likud party, yoked with the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu group, would still be the biggest bloc in the 120-member assembly with 31 seats, 11 fewer than the…
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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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Israel News Arabs Vote for Change in Election Derided by Many
In this city of 20,000 just 20 kilometers east of Tel Aviv, red flags of the Hadash party, a left-wing Arab-Jewish list, fluttered on the main road. Posters elsewhere featured Isawi Freij, a local who is No. 5 on the Meretz party list. Other posters showed Ibrahim Sarsur of the United Arab List, another local,…
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