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Israel News Israel’s Rightward Shift Sparks Worries
Election fever in Israel has Americans playing catch-up in an attempt to grasp the country’s political shifts and realignments. The Israeli elections, scheduled for January 22, 2013, will feature a Likud list dominated by representatives of the right wing and the settler communities, and a fractured political center that is split into four competing parties….
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Fast Forward Lieberman Will Run Despite Corruption Charge
Avigdor Lieberman confirmed on Saturday that he would run in next month’s Israeli election, despite a corruption charge that prompted him to resign from the post of foreign minister. Authorities have said Lieberman will be charged over alleged irregularities in the promotion of an Israeli diplomat who leaked information to him about a police investigation…
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Fast Forward Olmert: I’m Not Re-entering Politics
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told an Israeli television news magazine that he decided not to run in the upcoming elections due to rifts in the Center-Left political camp. Olmert, former head of the Kadima Party, also threw his support behind current Kadima Party leader Shaul Mofaz, during an interview Saturday night on Israel…
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Fast Forward Bibi Settlement Plan May Be Aimed at Elections
For Benjamin Netanyahu, plans to expand Israeli settlements may risk a diplomatic crisis with Europe but could prove a good bet at the ballot box. With a Jan. 22 election looming, the Israeli leader has defied long-standing international opposition to settlements and announced plans to build at least 3,000 more homes in the occupied West…
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Opinion Kissing Cousins, Israel Election Edition
Loverboy Bibi is at it again. Last year we caught Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kissing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Now he’s locking lips with Israeli Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich. Well, not exactly. Back in November 2011 Benetton photoshopped the embrace between Bibi and Abu Mazen as part of its controversial UNHATE ad campaign….
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Life Sex, Sandy and Gaming JDate
Each month, Forward editor-in-chief Jane Eisner hosts The Salon, a conversation with Rachel Sklar of Change the Ratio and other Jewish women about life, love, politics and everything in between. In the latest episode, Sisterhood contributor Sarah Seltzer discusses lessons from Hurricane Sandy; Amy Webb, author of “Data, A Love Story,” talks about how she…
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Fast Forward Polls: Only 7 Votes for Livni’s Party
Two polls predict no more than seven seats in the Israeli parliament for Tzippi Livni’s newly-established center-left party. A Smith Research poll of 500 Israelis, commissioned by The Jerusalem Post and the Globes daily, found Livni would garner no more than six seats in Israel’s January 22 general elections, the Post reported on Friday. A…
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Israel News Israeli Public Sours on Bibi After Gaza
When Israel assassinated Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari on November 14, its citizens were in awe of the achievement. It was widely suggested that impact of the killing was the equivalent of Barack Obama’s Osama bin Laden assassination for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and that it would aid his smooth return to office. But…
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