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Lieberman's issues a disproportionate response to polls that show his party will barely squeeze into the Knesset.
Chicago-style campaigning lands in Israel. Who and what is running this "non-partisan" campaign? Paging Lois Lerner!
Eli Yishai's Yachad passing the electoral threshold is enough to change the game back.
The united Arab list is enough to shift the balance of power.
By Yotam Rozenwald / Tazpit News Agency
Since the passing of the Governance bill legislation on March 11, 2014, new alignments have become to appear in Israeli politics.
Yair Lapid has announced his Yesh Atid list for the upcoming elections....
It isn't over until it's over.
The small right-wing parties will hurt their ideological allies and voters, unless they get past their egos and ideological perfectionism and help their side for a change.
Netanyahu will reportedly be offering a spot on the Likud list to Caroline Glick.
By Shalom Bear
Apparently the Arabs believe that all these years they voted for Labor, they were not voting for a Zionist party.
Likud pulls ahead, and quite incredibly Shas is making a comeback, but forming a coalition still depends on the small parties.
The wanabee prime minister has a solid, 100 percent certain policy of being uncertain.
They were afraid they would not pass the electoral threshold running separately.
The merged Labor party, AKA the "Zionist Camp" headed by Yitzchak Herzog and Tzipi Livni, has drafted former military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin to fill its vacuum for a future Defense Minister if it forms the next government. Israel Radio (Voice of Israel) was quick to promote Yadlin Tuesday morning with soft-glove questions that allowed […]
Yisrael Beytenu introduced his list, and even added a native English speaker, even if he stuck him in an unrealistic spot.
The popular right-wing Knesset Member now is in the 20th place on the list of candidates.
The inclusion of Hager may help Yishai's party get enough voters to be elected to the Knesset.
The younger generation is decidedly left-wing and right-wing.
This is hands down the best election commercial I've seen so far. Netanyahu is a kindergarten school teacher with an unruly class made up of his former coalition partners. Of course, you can always look at it as saying that Netanyahu is unable to control the class, and it's his fault. Either way, its definitely […]
Shamir is quitting Avigdor Libermans' party, will he join the Likud?
Stern quit Livni's party last month...
Labor's up, Bayit Yehudi is up, but the Left-Right division remains about the same.
Israel TV and radio turned a one-seat improvement for Herzog-Livni into a major victory.
Results of the recount are good news for the Likud and bad news for the Jewish Home party.
The Bayit Yehudi votes have been counted...
35 candidates are running for 11 realistic spots.
Labor primary election results are in...
An Israeli Supreme Court judge rejected on Tuesday an appeal by women to allow Israeli officials outside of the country to cast their votes in the Knesset elections in March on a day other than Purim. Justice Salim Jourban ruled that the Knesset knew the law, or should have known the law, that sets the […]
She finally figured out that her lawyer, not Lieberman, will be defending her if she is indicted for bribery.
Deri ends his slaps-shtick and accepts a rabbi's command to humbly return to lead the baa-baa sheep.
In the interview Feiglin describes his initial vision for the party...
The latest polls put Likud back on top, but its being able to form a coalition is less clear cut.
Two major supporters of Feiglin are sticking with the Likud.
Israelis have submitted a lot of names to the Prime Minister for a guaranteed spot on the Likud list.
Bennett suggested Livni offer the French her ideas for peace which she keeps trying to foist onto Israel...
Netanyahu can insert any 2 candidates he wants into the Knesset, he's asked you to choose for him...
Herzog and Livni discovered some of their voters don't want to vote for a Zionist party.
MK David Rotem (Yisrael Beitienu) announced today that he is retiring from politics.
By JoeSettler
JoeSettler was surprised this morning when he saw that PM Netanyahu is adopting the electoral reform idea JoeSettler introduced on these pages.
MK Moshe Feiglin’s Likud resignation speech at the Jerusalem Convention Hall Conference
Moshe Feiglin announced this evening, in response to the Likud election results....
The Likud is recounting some problematic ballot boxes. Hotovely reportedly helped dump Feiglin; Bibi wants her in the Knesset.
Voters apparently like the Likud’s more centrist list of candidates. Lieberman hurt by bribe scandal. Shas survives.
99% of the votes have been counted, and this is the new Likud list...
Following a partial count, these are the winners in the Likud Primaries
It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good. Feiglin’s loss is the Jewish Home party’s gain.
The scandals have affected the parties in the polls.
Shas's Council of Sages have given their response to Aryeh Deri's letter of resignation...
By Shalom Bear
The video was a political nuke, and Deri is betting the farm.
No one knows who leaked the video of Rav Ovadia, but it's a bombshell, and there might be more on the way.
He thanked Avigdor Liberman for the years of working together, and added that he will help with the elections.
A ruling against the law will throw the elections into another 30-ring circus.
Too much ideology spoils the political soup.
Poll for Dec. 26, 2014.
Will American-born Uri Bank win a Knesset seat?
Channel 2 has released their latest election poll...
Bayit Yehudi, or its predecessor, the Mafdal party, hasn't held the Education Minister's portfolio since 1999.
By Shalom Bear
After narrowing missing in the last elections, Michael Ben-Ari is trying to make a comeback and represent the "real right-wing" in Israel.
It takes an average of 140 monthly salaries to buy a home. Ariel plans to lower that down to 85.
Ambassador Michael Oren is the first person to join Moshe Kachlon's new political party, Kulanu.
By Shalom Bear
Livni's party is now down to 2 MKs (from 6). What did Herzog buy that was so expensive?
The results of the poll may cause people to start changing their minds.
Rabbi Yehuda Glick, who was critically wounded in an assassination attempt several weeks ago, announced he is running “symbolically” on the Likud list for the elections to the Knesset. He is in 33rd place, and he will not be elected unless the party performs a miracle no less than his recovery and wins 33 seats. […]
Elections, and not Netanyahu, raised the minimum wage.
The decision of Uri Aril’s Tekuma faction to remain in the party and re-start a “Yesha faction” is a blessing.
Stern expressed dismay at Tzipi Livni's merger with the Labor party.
The small Arab parties are talking about merging, and this could result in 14 seats for the Arab sector.
Reshet Bet has released their latest election poll...
By Shalom Bear
Liberman and Kachlon may merge right after elections - and the larger party will recommend Liberman for Prime Minister to the President.
25-year-old man threatened former Shas party head with violence.
By Shalom Bear
Feiglin decided he and the Likud party are better off if he fights on only one front, not two or three.
By Shalom Bear
I'm sorry, but Naftali Bennett decided to dress up as an aging Tel Aviv Hipster and... apologize...
Shas takes a hit in the latest poll, and the coalition possibilities shift a bit with the changing numbers.
And that puts pressure on Aryeh Deri...
Feiglin stars in a new music video...
Yishai was whisked to a safe room by Knesset bodyguards after Deri's supporters tried to attack him.
“Leftists don’t care about Arabs, settlers are the true Jews. Leftists warned me I will be the first in the gas chambers."
The latest Knesset poll has Labor down a bit, and Likud moving up again.
Meretz wants to make sure that Eli Yishai will not be in the next Knesset.
Moshe Kahlon courts Michael Oren but rejects Rami Levi. Shas and Jewish Home divorces not yet final.
It appears that former Shas MK Eli Yishai is taking that next big step.
The addition of the secular Dayan is another sign pointing to national religious Uri Ariel's joining Haredi Eli Yishai.
Netanyahu is not likeable, but leading the country is not a popularity contest.
By JoeSettler
The party chiefs are acting drunk and childish - making stupid mistakes and inadvertently showing their true selves - just like on Purim.
Deri is getting rid of Yishai, and Uri Ariel is making noise about dividing the Jewish Home Party.
Lieberman is destroying himself politically before the voters do it for him.
The only coalition combination that seem reasonable from this poll is...
A poll of Israeli-Arabs showed that 47.1% want MK Ahmed Tibi as head of a united Arab list running for Knesset.
Senior Likud member Gideon Sa'ar announced Thursday he will not run against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the leadership of the Likud party. Sa'ar, an old friend of the Prime Minister, resigned from the Knesset several months ago for a “vacation” from politics. Likud party members who want the Likud to take a stronger hawkish […]
At age 78, with health problems, he said enough is enough.
Election campaigns bring out the worst in all of the politicians, and Shas is a shining example.
It's almost official: Moshe Kachlon will probably be calling his party...
The two couldn't decide which of them is going to be the Prime Minister.
Who should know better than Kariv, whose expertise is as a social worker?
Knesset Members are scheduled to sign the death notice for the current government and hold second and third readings on the bill for political euthanasia and give Israelis another chance to vote for another fractious government in March. Rumors, mainly from the center-left media and their favorite parties, are that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will […]
The meeting will help Herzog put Livni, another suitor, in her place, but also could preclude a three-way merger to tackle Netanyahu.
Rabbi Rontzki began his IDF career as a special forces commando and 41 years later ended it as Chief Rabbi and Brigadier General.
Both Herzog and Livni repeatedly claim they are qualified to become Israel's next Prime Minister.
By Shalom Bear
The Likud checked to see if anyone other than Bibi could bring them to victory.
The surprising results are a strong warning to Bennett and Netanyahu that the right wing is not in their pockets.
July 3, 2026 
