Far-right extremism is the real winner of Israel’s elections
The rise of Itamar Ben-Gvir spells the end of Israel as a light unto the nations
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News All eyes on Jerusalem: Four possible outcomes of Israel’s election
Tuesday’s vote could see the return of Benjamin Netanyahu to power 18 months after he was ousted from office — or force his retirement
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Fast Forward 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
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News Israeli president visits DC six days before critical Israeli election
President Isaac Herzog was invited by congressional leaders to speak at a joint session of Congress next year
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Fast Forward With tensions high, Itamar Ben-Gvir draws gun during stone-throwing in Jerusalem
Itamar Ben-Gvir is campaigning to allow security forces to shoot stone-throwers
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Opinion The fall of Israel’s government empowers dangerous conspiracies on the right
There has been a marked rise in poisonous rhetoric against Israeli Arabs by right-wing politicians over the past 12 months
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News Analysis: Israel’s election results look like the coronavirus never happened
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…
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News Could Israel be headed to a fifth election? Experts discuss that, and much more
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…
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