Israel’s upcoming election and its high stakes for democracy, explained
With the help of a far-right bloc that has alarmed the Diaspora, Benjamin Netanyahu is close to a comeback that has polarized the country
With the help of a far-right bloc that has alarmed the Diaspora, Benjamin Netanyahu is close to a comeback that has polarized the country
President Isaac Herzog was invited by congressional leaders to speak at a joint session of Congress next year
Itamar Ben-Gvir is campaigning to allow security forces to shoot stone-throwers
There has been a marked rise in poisonous rhetoric against Israeli Arabs by right-wing politicians over the past 12 months
The television exit polls show that the main event of the past year – the coronavirus – didn’t influence Israeli voters at all. What hasn’t happened to us since the last election? Lockdowns, quarantines, more than 6,000 deaths, face masks, cellphone tracking by the Shin Bet security service, huge deficits, soaring unemployment, Saturday night demonstrations…
Ahead of Israel’s unprecedented fourth election in two years, Forward Editor-in-Chief Jodi Rudoren was joined by American-Israeli author Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute; Tamar Hermann, a public opinion specialist at the Israel Democracy Institute; Jay Ruderman, president of the Ruderman Family Foundation; and Jacob Kornbluh, the Forward’s senior political…
“Polls are like perfume, you can smell, but never taste” said the late Shimon Peres — meaning that while polls prevent politicians from being blindsided by events, they are not a certain predictor of election results. Today’s polls indicate that the power of the Israeli Zionist left has been in serious decline. From a peak…
Keeping track of the myriad players in Israel’s election on Tuesday can be dizzying, even though we’ve seen this movie before, as this is the Jewish state’s fourth balloting in less than two years. For confused Americans who want to follow along but are unsure how to understand all of the major players — what’s…
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