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Fast Forward Confused About The Israeli Election Results? Here’s Everything You Need To Know.
Remember those logic puzzles you’d do for extra credit in middle school math class? Just imagine trying to solve one of those, but the result determines who gets to lead a country. The second Israeli election campaign in less than six months concluded Tuesday, and we still don’t know who won, long after the polls…
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Israel News Who Is Benny Gantz, Israel’s Potential Next Prime Minister?
With more than 90% of the votes counted in the Israeli election, the party with the most of them appears to be the Blue and White alliance, led by former Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz. Although the party leader with the most votes doesn’t always win, Gantz very well could become Israel’s…
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Israel News Netanyahu Fighting For Survival As Votes Continue To Be Counted
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in a battle for political survival after exit polls following Tuesday’s election showed the race too close to call and the Israeli leader’s decade-long grip on power weakened. Netanyahu’s main election challenger, centrist party chief Benny Gantz, said on Wednesday it appeared from the exit polls that…
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Israel News What You Need To Know About Tuesday’s Israeli Elections
When Yogi Berra famously said, “It’s déjà vu all over again,” he wasn’t talking about the Israeli elections. But he might as well have been. Israelis return to the polls on Tuesday, less than six months after doing so in April. Why is this happening? What’s at stake? Who’s going to win? We’ve got you…
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Fast Forward Israel Spied On White House, But Trump Did Nothing To Respond: Report
(JTA) — Cell-phone surveillance devices that were found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington, D.C. likely were planted by Israel, Politico reported. The article published online on Thursday, cited three unnamed former senior officials that Politico said have “knowledge of the matter.” Unlike other times when flagrant incidents of foreign spying…
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News Submit Your Questions About Next Week’s Israeli Elections
Jodi Rudoren, the Forward’s brand-new Editor-in-Chief, covered not one but two Israeli elections (2013 and 2015) during her tenure as Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times. Now, with Israelis heading to the polls next Tuesday for the second time in less than six months, Jodi is ready to answer your questions about Israeli…
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Fast Forward Former Strip Club In Tel Aviv Will Become Synagogue
A Tel Aviv strip club shut down after police raids repeatedly found prostitution and drugs will become the home for a spiritual community that will use the space as a synagogue, Israeli news outlets are reporting. The Pussycat Show Club took over a the widely known Colliseum building in Tel Aviv’s Atarim Square, near the…
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Israel News Netanyahu Promises To Annex West Bank Settlements If Re-Elected
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he would extend Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea if reelected. Speaking to the press a week before the election, Netanyahu also said that the Trump administration’s peace plan, which he said would be released days after the election, would provide a “historic…
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