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An Israel Channel 10 report speculated on Sunday that Likud and Yisrael Beytenu are headed their separate ways. Avigdor Liberman will be holding a press conference at 11:00 AM on Monday, where it is believed he may announce the split between the two parties. If the parties do split, then the Likud will remain the […]
With just days left until the coalition deadline, any of these rumors and leaks could be true.
The Hareidi party, UTJ, proposed a bill in the Knesset calling for new elections to be held within 90 days. The bill, drafted by MK Uri Maklev, and signed by all the UTJ members, stated that the results of the elections were too inconclusive, the current configuration is not governable, and too many inexperienced newcomers […]
Netanyahu challenged them, but Bennett and Lapid apparently worked it out.
After failing to assemble a coalition within the legally allotted month, Prime Minister Netanyahu went back to President Shimon Peres on Saturday night to ask for an extension. Peres granted Netanyahu a two week extension, which is the maximum allowed by the law. If he fails to put together a coalition within two weeks, Peres […]
Mofaz asked for the Defense Ministry during coalition talks.
It only took a month, but Likud-Beteinu finally managed to close a deal with its first coalition partner, Tzipi Livni's HaTnua party. Livni will reportedly receive the Justice Ministry and be an inner cabinet member. Amir Peretz will serve as environmental protection minister, and Amram Mitzna will be chairman of the Knesset House Committees. It […]
Nasty threats, mistreatment, rumors, and a general lack of trust define this government's coalition building attempts.
Following a 5 year estrangement, Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu finally met in Tel Aviv. The meeting, held in the government's offices in the Kirya, took place just after noon, and lasted for 2 hours. The meeting was described as businesslike, and all the issues on the table were discussed. […]
By Shalom Bear
Tasked with the job of forming the next coalition government, Netanyahu sets out his goals for this term.
While Netanyahu reportedly has his hands full with Yair Lapid's coalition demands, Avigdor Liberman met with Naftali Bennett today to discuss Bennett's joining the coalition, according to Avigdor Liberman's Facebook page. Liberman said they discussed the political options currently on the table as well as the Chareidi draft issue. They agreed to continue talking. Bennett […]
Rumors are flying in the Israeli media today that the other possible reason between the acrimonious relationship between Bibi and Bennett is the anonymous claim that Bennett leaked information that led to the Bibi-Tours investigation. The investigation into Netanyahu's financial relationships with certain donors is once again being talked about in the news. Bennett has […]
Two days after the elections ended, PM Netanyahu finally decided to call HaBayit HaYehudi (Jewish Home) head Naftali Bennett. The two did not set a time they would meet, and rumors from within the Likud before the elections said that Netanyahu would not include the "Jewish Home" party in his coalition. Netanyahu will not be […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Yesh Atid perceives a possible peace process as a response to an ensemble of threats looming over the State of Israel.
By Ben Sales
TEL AVIV – His party shrunk, his opponents grew and his challengers multiplied. But with the results in, it seems Benjamin Netanyahu survived the Knesset elections Tuesday to serve another term as prime minister.
JERUSALEM – With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu slate, still expected to be tapped by President Shimon Peres to form Israel’s 33rd government, its makeup will look different from the outgoing coalition.
President Obama was issuing a not so subtly veiled threat to the Israeli voters.
Counting of the 250,000 votes from soldiers, hospitals, embassies and prisoners are expected to only be completed on Thursday. As a result, some of the party numbers may still change. There are predictions that Likud may still go up to 33, HaBayit HaYehudi to 12, while Yesh Atid may drop to 18 and the Arab […]
Bibi want to block democracy within the Likud.
These are the final results for the elections to the 19th Knesset.
Update: There was a slight surge for the religious/right during the middle of the counting, but in the end it didn't pan out. As the voting results continue to be tallied, it appears that the Right and Religious parties are gaining in strength compared to the the results released in the earlier exit polls, with […]
Who's in, who's not in the 19th Knesset.
Is the Likud in danger?
For an Israeli election race where no one can actually say what the important issues of the race are, voter turnout has been at an all time high all day long. By 2:00PM, voting was at 38.3%, compared to the previous high in 1999, when it was at 34%. At 4:00 PM, voting reached 46.6%, […]
In the past, Chareidi (Ultra-Orthodox) participation in election voting has never topped more than around a third of their potential voters. Chareidim have avoided voting for two primary reasons. The first is to minimize their participation in the Zionist enterprise, the second is that many Chareidim are actually disillusioned with the Chareidi political leadership, and […]
So my advice is, don't try to outsmart anyone. You will just be shooting yourself in the foot. Vote for the party you want to see lead the country.
A Channel 1 survey reported that 20% of voters remain undecided until the last minute. Many will only be deciding on the party to vote for once they reach the voting booth. Voter turnout is the highest its been since the elections in 1999.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
There are Israeli voters making some surprising and rather unexpected choices.
By JTA
The attack occurred as Bennett began praying in front of the Wall
What is better, a popular Israel riddled with dead Jews or an unpopular Israel filled with living ones?
Left, Right or Center Jameel advises you on which party to vote for.
The Likud has achieved much over the last four years for settlements and the nation, and aside from his silly insistence on the two-state solution, Netanyahu has been a pretty good Prime Minister.
Still deciding who will get your vote? The Jewish Press team has interviewed several of this election's most newsworthy candidates - hear what they have to say about the issues affecting you most, and cast your ballot on January 22.
By Tzvi Fishman
By sitting in a Netanyahu-led government the Jewish Home would be an accomplice to the theft of the Land of Israel.
Rubinstein made clear that candidate lists running for election may not trifle with injunctions issued by the Chairman of the Central Election Commission.
By Shalom Bear
Rhetoric aside, real data can answer the question as to who built the most in the Settlements.
Israel Channel 10 reported that the Likud's strategic campaign advisor, Arthur Finkelstein, quit the campaign. Finkelstein's office said the trip overseas today was planned well in advance.
"When positions opened, if there was a qualified woman for the job I was inclined to hire her."
The Channel 10 report included the fact that none of the Likud's district candidates would get in and even MK Carmel Shama could be on the chopping bloc.
JERUSALEM – While it appears likely that incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will head Israel’s next government, there are growing indications that his future coalition government could look substantially different from the current one.
During the interview Bennett refused to answer what ministry he would like to head.
Trump even works in the Likud's election slogan, "A strong prime minister is a strong Israel."
The Musmus village council announced that the police alone would bear responsibility for the consequences of the visit.
By JTA
“I’m almost convinced that he’ll come out innocent."
Yesha Council Chairman Dani Dayan appears in a pro-Likud video clip.
It cannot be claimed it is fair for one party to attack another, but not for the other to attack back...
By Meir Indor
Moshko, the Holocaust-survivor-turned-legendary-builder-of-Gush-Etzion, once asked why Rabbi Moshe Levinger was shoving his way into Hevron and Kiryat Arba. “Here we work in consensus with the authorities. Let him come here!” Rabbi Levinger responded: “Tell Moshko he owes his consensus to the fact that we are here. Without us, Gush Etzion would become a matter of […]
The election-video recalls the practical achievements of the government over the last four years.
In 1992, the Tehiya Party brought down Shamir's government over the Madrid Conference, leading to Labor's victory and the signing of the Oslo Accords.
A selection of videos from the Israeli election commercials.
The spot shows a Russian born bride to receive her instant giur-conversion document by fax.
'This was an excellent government for the settlements,' Dani Dayan said.
Bennett turns the tables on a political ambush.
In a 12 year struggle, we have led the Religious Zionists deep into the ruling party. The Likud, in turn, gladly opened its gates wide.
The poll comes on the heels of another set of polls which claimed that Israelis supported the two-state solution by a two-thirds margin.
The poll numbers are shaky, but if they held until elections, even with the Likud-Beytenu's drop in seats, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would still most likely form Israel's next government.
Israeli former Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Liberman was formally indicted on Sunday on charges of breach of trust and fraud, and could also be charged with moral turpitude.
By JoeSettler
You might recall the famous case of MK Azmi Bishara, not coincidentally, also from the Balad party.
Yesterday the activists clashed with security forces and prevented the evacuation of the Oz Zion residents.
Many forget that Netanyahu's score on his actions during the Disengagement was a floor hugging 14%.
Likud-Beytenu punished for bad behavior, while inadvertently helping HaBayit HaYehudi again.
By Rafi Farber
Why it makes absolutely no difference how many seats the Jewish Home party gets.
By Meir Indor
The Israeli Left is incentivizing the Palestinians to refuse negotiations and potentially use violence against Israel.
Naftali Bennett goes on the offensive, questioning whether Netanyahu is planing another Expulsion/Disengagement based on his statements.
While the Israeli media wrongly claimed that the Likud had made an extreme shift to the right in recent primaries, some commentators were correcting in observing the existence of a deal-system. (Part IV in a series about the Likud primaries).
MK Haneen Zoabi has been banned from running for the 19th Knesset by the Central Elections Committee, which censured her for supporting terrorism and for denying Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state.
JERUSALEM – With one month to go before Israelis cast their ballots, religious and nationalist parties have engaged in highly negative campaigns against each other, claiming that only their party will be able to pressure the next prime minister into promoting their domestic, economic and religious agendas. According to all polls, those parties are likely to be the basis of the next governing coalition – expected to be led by incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The right of center parties continue to maintain their lead, albeit by a slightly smaller margin in eight polls released December 9-15.
Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely celebrated her victory in the Likud primaries.
The Jewish Home party announced the launch of its English-speaking campaign.
In depth analysis of the Likud's final list for the Knesset (part III in a series).
In depth analysis of the Likud's final list for the Knesset (part II in a series).
In depth analysis of the Likud's final list for the Knesset (part I in a series).
Knesset Jeremy's average of last week's polls.
Danon came fifth in the primaries, which often means a ministerial position.
Intrigue and rumor swirls around Danny Ayalon's exclusion from the Yisrael Beytenu list, as no one is officially saying a thing. There's nothing nature abhors more than a vacuum.
Party registration for running in the Israeli elections to Knesset finally closed, and the pollsters are busy.
Speaker of the Knesset Reuven Rivlin (Likud) criticized the practice of switching between parties by various Members of Knesset and Knesset candidates , calling on the next Knesset to regulate such behavior, Israel's Channel 10 website reported. "We need to ask ourselves what is transpiring in our political culture," Rivlin said. "To my regret, what […]
Amir Peretz, former Histadrut union chief and former Defense Minister, is now a former member of the Avoda (Labor) party. He is moving over to the Movement (HaTnuah) party of Tzipi Livni (former head of Kadima, and former Foreign Minister). Also moving over to Livni's party is former general Elazar Stern. Stern announced on the […]
Speaker of the Knesset Rueven Rivlin (Likud) said Wednesday that he would be willing to be moved lower on the joint Likud Yisrael Beitenu ("Likud-Beitenu") list in order to ensure that a female candidate were included in the list's top ten candidates, Ma'ariv reported. Rivlin is number 10 on the joint list. The first female […]
MK Aryeh Eldad (Strength to Israel) and Knesset candidate Moshe Feiglin (Likud) traded barbs today over ideological purity and compromise in politics.
According to a report on Israel Channel 10, Shelly Yechimovitch, the head of the Labor party, said that if she is appointed Minister of Finance, she would increase healthcare taxes, legislate an inheritance tax, and increase the corporate tax rate.
This item in Hebrew from Israel's Channel 2/Mako informs us that: 49% of all first time voters define themselves as right-wing. 20% as center but right-leaning. 5% as left and 9% as center but left-leaning. How are those stats? Visit My Right Word.
Labor party primary results are in, and Shelly Yechimovitch did not come out a winner.
The Labor party, headed up by Shelly Yechimovitch, will be holding primaries on Thursday. Nana10 reports that senior staffers in Yechimovitch's office have set up white lists and black lists of who they want in the Knesset and who they don't want to see at all. Among those that Yechimovitch reportedly does not want running […]
The following poll result were reported on the Knesset TV Channel, after the Cease Fire announcement.
The average of 2 polls published last week, Channel 2 and Jerusalem Post. The Post poll was conducted November 12-13 and the Channel 2 poll was published November 14.
So far, the only candidates that I am 100% certain about are from the list from Mattot Arim.
All but Smoliansky are allies of Naftali Bennett who trounced MK Zvulon Orlev to become the new chairman of the party last week.
On Tuesday night, around 100 English speaking Likud members and supporters got to hear MK Tzipi Hotoveli, MK Gila Gamliel and Jerusalem City Council member Yair Gabai address some of the major issues of the day, in English. The event, which was held at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem, and lasted over two hours, was […]
We may be in different parties, but Jeremy Gimpel is representative of the English-speaking community in Israel. His message represents the selfless Zionist commitment of the community in the political sphere. My hope is that all Anglos who are members of the Jewish Home should make sure they turn up at the polling station and support Jeremy Gimpel and help him get into the Knesset.
JERUSALEM – More than 100,000 American voters in Israel cast their ballots for a presidential candidate, with nearly 80,000 of them having submitted a ballot provided by iVoteIsrael, a local non-profit organization that spent the past few months aggressively encouraging American expatriates living in Israel to register and vote. The remaining registered voters cast their ballots via the absentee route.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu congratulated re-elected President Barack Obama.
By Ben Sales and Uriel Heilman
TEL AVIV – Political pundits have long debated who is the real Benjamin Netanyahu. Is he a pragmatist handcuffed by his right-wing support base and fealty to his late father’s nationalist vision? Is he a true right-wing ideologue whose apparent concessions to Israeli-Palestinian peace are but feints?
Israel's political party conventions make the Knesset seem polite and tame. At the Likud Central Committee convention the other day, the vote for PM Netanyahu's proposal for the Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu to run together in the upcoming election was conducted by a "show of hands" popular vote. Not the best way to hold a vote.
Netanyahu said that the decision to run together won't change the Likud, but it would allow the Likud to change the State of Israel. But the new joint list will receive only 42 seats in the next Knesset elections next January, a Channel 2 News poll found on Sunday. It means that the parties will retain their current power.
Both men are, above all else, pragmatic. They will defy logic and critics to shake up the political spectrum. Bibi has done it several times. A few months ago, polls guaranteed him a sure win if he called early elections. The announcements were made; dates were discussed and then, in the dead of night, he made a deal to unite with Kadima. No surprise to anyone, that deal fell apart rather quickly and Israel is once again on the path to elections.
In an unexpected move, 10% of the Likud Central Committee members gathered enough signatures to demand a secret ballot on whether or not to run on a joint list with Yisrael Beiteinu.
In a move that took everyone by surprise, including their own party members, Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party and the Likud have joined forces ahead of the upcoming elections and will be running as a joint list.
Jeremy Saltan's combined weekly poll average from Oct 14-20 shows the Likud with 28 seats, down from the prior week's average of 29 seats, Kadima remains at 6, and Yisrael Beitenu is down to just about 13 seats.
June 26, 2026 
