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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked asked Bennett to transfer his veto power to her if he steps down, "to safeguard the right's power."
The head of the Central Elections Committee had previously decided to ban Chikli from running for the Knesset.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The ads spotlight on the incident when the Democratic nominee for the state’s U.S. Senate seat, John Fetterman, chased an unarmed, innocent black man with a shotgun in 2013.
The public does not know the details of the agreement with Lebanon.
Rabbi David Fine said, “The Religious Zionist Party is the only party which consistently raises the flag on issues which are important to Israelis from English-speaking countries."
Yair Lapid reportedly had a secret deal in place with MK Michal Shir to ensure that the rotation happened, one way or the other.
The conflict will end when Israeli-Arab leaders realize the war to destroy the Jewish State has been lost.
2 candidates for the head of the administration and 3 lists for the plenum are competing in the elections.
Balad is not likely to pass the electoral threshold.
Noam has agreed to run with Smotrich and Ben-Gvir after Netanyahu intervened.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
According to Israeli law, with few limitations, anyone can register to run for Knesset, promoting any concept.
Religious Zionists won't need to figure out how to split their votes.
Netanyahu wants them to merge their parties to maximize the chances of forming a rightwing coalition.
Meanwhile, Shirley Pinto doesn't trust that Shaked will not join a rightwing Netanyahu government.
Lapid didn't say who else would or wouldn't be in his coalition.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Likud’s petition, submitted to the Central Election Committee, stated that “a sovereign state cannot afford the external interference of a foreign and hostile entity in the election process for the Knesset.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
And J Street blames AIPAC for using money against progressive candidates and receiving funding from major Republican donors.
Netanyahu received close to 10,000 phone calls in a half hour.
Ben-Gvir calls for a public ceasefire with Smotrich, as Smotrich's party goes to the polls.
Smotrich would give Ben-Gvir the 2, 5, 7, 9 and 10th spots on the united list.
So far it's Shaked, Hendel and Hauser in positions 1, 2 and 4.
Glenn Ivey beats former Rep. Donna Edwards in state’s 4th Congressional District • Ivey to run for largely black suburb vacated by Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Md.) against Republican primary winner Jeff Warner, a pastor.
MKs Nir Orbach and Idit Silman will also need to quit the Knesset soon if they are to run on the Likud list.
"The State of Israel is bigger than all of us. More important than any of us. It was here before us, and will be here long after us. It doesn’t belong only to us. It belongs to those who dreamed of it for thousands of years in the Diaspora, and also to those yet to be born, to future generations."
Exiting Prime Minister Naftali Bennett gives some advice and a blessing to incoming interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
Some Knesset candidates are pulling out their military backgrounds to cudgel one another.
Netanyahu has about a week now to try and form a new coalition.
The leaders cited their achievements.
Yair Lapid also spoke and thanked Bennett, saying Bennett “put the country before the personal interest.”
One wonders if everyone is considering the potential consequences of their actions.
Hamas received 5018 votes against Fatah, which only got 3379 votes.
Pro-Hezbollah parties did not fare as well as they had in the past in Lebanons elections.
Whether or not this vote happens is almost completely in the hands of the Islamic Ra'am party.
Her campaign was endorsed and supported by AIPAC and its new political action committee, which can support candidates directly.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The organization previously endorsed six candidates, bringing its total number of endorsements to 20.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has been a leader in the progressive “Squad” standing against Israel on key votes in the U.S. House of Representatives.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The process will be continued “until a suitable candidate is found,” says the Agency, after none of the current candidates was able to secure enough votes for nomination.
By COLlive.com
Zeldin was elected to the US Congress in 2014, representing New York’s First Congressional District, where he continues to serve as one of two Republican Jewish lawmakers.
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
The poll shows a decrease in the percentage of those who believe that armed struggle is the most effective means of ending the Israeli occupation.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
protestors gathered at Habima Square and demanded “the preservation of the Jewish identity of the State of Israel.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
They include four Democrats and two Republican U.S. congressional members eyeing re-election.
Netanyahu came out lashing, declaring the bill and it's supporters undemocratic.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The PA and EU celebrated the inauguration of the new headquarters of the PA’s Central Elections Commission (CEC) in Ramallah.
By Josh Hasten
Speaker after speaker at this year’s Republican Jewish Coalition accused the Biden administration of failing on many issues but especially on damaging the strong U.S.-Israel ties developed under the Trump administration, while also showing weakness against Iran as they pursue nuclear weapons.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Nonetheless, a convincing majority of Virginia's Jews voted Democratic.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The latest polls show Bennett barely getting into the Knesset if elections were held.
Rumor has it that Netanyahu is planning to offer Gantz a very sweet deal.
Two leading candidates—Nina Turner and Shontel Brown—have staked out vastly differing views on Israel, with pro-Israel groups throwing their weight behind Brown while deriding Turner’s hostility towards Israel and support from “The Squad.”
“The Flatbush Jewish community, our leadership, residents, yeshivah leaders, parents and business owners all agree that, for our community, the No. 1 issue in the election was public safety,” said community leader Chaskel Bennett.
The leadership of the Satmar Chasidim in New York announced that they are backing of Brooklyn Borough president Eric Adams for mayor after previously endorsing his closest competitor former Democratic mayoral candidate Andrew Yang.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The initiative lacked the necessary support within the coalition-in-formation, and comes on the heels of Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid's announcement of his ability to form the next government.
There are those that hope Netanyahu will take up the mantle, to break the deadlock in forming a coalition government.
By Alex Traiman
Naftali Bennett had explicitly pledged that he would not sit in any government with Yair Lapid, “not with a rotation and not without a rotation,” because he “is right while Lapid is left.” It is now clear that he was negotiating the terms of a rotation the entire time.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hamas is projected to win the elections in Judea and Samaria.
If Abu Mazen postpones the election, he is expected to face a confrontation with Hamas.
The Unidas Podemos and Más Madrid parties, as well as presidential candidate Pablo Iglesias, have a history of anti-Jewish, anti-Israel action and rhetoric.
ACOM is calling on voters from Madrid to voice their opposition to anti-Semitic far-Left parties such as Unidas Podemos and Mas Madrid, and presidential candidate Pablo Iglesias, through the ballot box.
The bill doesn't create a coalition, but does give legitimacy and a mandate to the winner that might convince the nay-sayers to join the coalition of the winner.
Abbas wants to cancel the upcoming elections, while the Biden administration will allegedly emphasize the demand for democracy in the Palestinian Authority.
Israel banned candidates running in the upcoming Palestinian Legislative Council elections from holding a press conference in Jerusalem on Saturday, and detained three of them.
Dahlan’s faction issued a statement of condemnation and placed the responsibility for the safety of all candidates on Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas and his security apparatus.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I’m ready to go all-in on this mission and bring New York back from the brink and return it to glory,” said the congressman from Long Island.
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, …let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds."
Abu Mazen is supposedly looking for a way to cancel the elections.
By Israel Hayom
The terrorist currently serving five life sentences in Israeli prison could pose a serious threat to the Palestinian Authority leader’s hold on power in Ramallah.
“For 30 years, we’ve tried the path of isolationism, and it hasn’t gotten us anywhere. It’s time for a change,” says a senior member of the Arab-Israeli party.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Senior Likud figure Tsahi Hanegbi openly called to rely on Ra'am.
Exit poll results in real time...
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The 6,578,084 eligible voters can arrive at 12,127 ballots across the country and cast their vote for one of the 39 parties running for the Knesset.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The neighborhood being built will be named “Neve Achiad” after Rabbi Achiad Ettinger z"l.
Sources claim the decision was the result of a warning by Israel's Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman.
Netanyahu blamed the (failed) rotation government on the failure to regulate the settlements in this last government.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
It is estimated that there will be about 37,000 patients and about 50,000 Israelis in quarantine with the right to vote on Elections Day.
By Israel Hayom
MK Nitzan Horowitz’s remark “justifying the political and anti-Semitic action of the court at The Hague and its persecution of IDF soldiers is a disgrace to the Israeli Knesset,” says Yamina Party’s Ayelet Shaked.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Netanyahu’s Likud party stated it will appeal the decision to “censor Netanyahu.”
Hamas is the front runner in the Palestinian Authority elections.
Mahmoud Abbas may start releasing his political opponents and critics from jail to promote a climate of public liberty before the elections.
The list would be called, "Jerusalem First."
Biden may not be calling Netanyahu to make Bibi look weak ahead of the Israeli elections.
The different factions are threatening to publish damaging information about the other factions.
Both sides may be able to form a coalition, but only Netanyahu's coalition would be a stable one with natural partners.
There's pressure on Hamas to agree to Fatah's conditions for the election, conditions that Hamas doesn't like.
Low voter turnout will serve Hamas.
By Alex Traiman
Klein has served as Netanyahu’s strategic adviser since June after leading a successful election campaign in March 2020.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Several pundits believe that Israel will be facing a fifth round of elections within months.
Since its founding, this will be the first time that the Mafdal/Bayit Yehudi party is not running and won't be represented in the Knesset.
Arafat's personal documents seem to indicate that Rajoub was involved in killing a number of Hamas terrorists.
Polls show the merged parties having a better chance of passing the electoral threshold.
Rajoub added that “there is a national agreement between all the factions regarding the holding of elections in Jerusalem.”
Abu Mazen’s entourage is also heavily concerned about the proliferation of Fatah lists.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
One big issue under dispute was their cooperation with the government and working with the Zionist political parties.
By Israel Hayom
The nine-step plan includes grants for businesses and families and aid to the unemployed • Blue and White dismisses the move as a political stunt ahead of the March elections.
As part of the assault on Israeli sovereignty, the PA and Europe are trying to include Arab residents of Jerusalem in the Palestinian Authority elections..
By Israel Hayom
Hagit Moshe defeated Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett’s confidant, Nir Orbach.
Hamas stands to take control if any elections are held in the Palestinian Authority.
Jibril Rajoub is seeking the chairmanship of the Legislative Council and is behind an attempt to establish a joint list for Hamas and Fatah.
Tackling the issues that could potentially redefine his entire presidency, President Trump addressed the nation and called for unity.
President Trump releases a video statement following the Capitol riots.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
They will serve their Knesset terms for less than 3 months.
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