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Fast Forward Netanyahu Rivals Mull Grand Coalition
Israel’s main centre-left parties may join forces against conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Jan. 22 election that he is currently forecast to win easily, one of the challengers said on Saturday. Former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, head of the centrist Hatenuah party, said on Twitter that she would meet counterparts from the kindred…
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Life Are Reproductive Rights on the Way Out?
If you think the 2012 election and the epic veto-by-voter of all the misogynist politicians confused about rape means that abortion rights are once again ascendant, this first week of 2013 is likely to be a sobering. A major survey and a big cover story released this week declare anti-abortion efforts successful when it comes…
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Fast Forward Israel Protest Leaders Hope To Make Voting Sexy
They are young and they are driven. They got half a million Israelis out on the streets demanding social justice. Now they want their votes. The leaders of a grassroots social protest movement that swept Israel in 2011 have shot to the top of a rejuvenated Labour party that polls say will at least double…
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Fast Forward Lapid Vows To Shake Up Israel’s Orthodox
In a matter of months, Yair Lapid has turned from heartthrob television news anchor into a rising star of Israeli politics, leading a new centrist party into elections on Jan. 22. Lapid, 49, may prove an attractive coalition partner for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, which is widely forecast to lead the next…
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News TV Anchor’s Affair May Cost Her Election Gig
An Israeli TV anchorwoman may be bounced as the main presenter of her channel’s election coverage over her affair with a ruling party minister. Geula Even was set to host Channel 1’s broadcast of the January 22 election together with the channel’s political correspondent, Ayala Hasson. But Even, who was recently linked romantically involved with…
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Fast Forward Avigdor Lieberman Hit With Fraud Charge
Israeli far-right leader Avigdor Lieberman was charged on Sunday with fraud and breach of trust, allegations that prompted his resignation as foreign minister two weeks ago, justice officials said. Lieberman, who has denied the accusations, remains head of the Yisrael Beitenu party that has formed a coalition with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party…
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Fast Forward Arab Candidate Can Run in Election: Court
Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Sunday an Arab lawmaker could stand in elections, overturning her disqualification by electoral officials over her participation in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in 2010. The nine-justice court ruled unanimously Haneen Zoabi “shall be a candidate for the Knesset” in a Jan. 22 poll without giving details of its reasons. Zoabi…
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Fast Forward Right-Wingers Scuffle With Arabs Over Vote Hearing
A violent scuffle broke out between right-wing Israeli activists and supporters of Arab-Israeli lawmaker Hanin Zoabi following a Supreme Court hearing on her disqualification from upcoming elections. Zoabi said before a hearing in front of a panel of nine Supreme Court justices Thursday that she broke no law that could serve as the basis for…
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