Initial Exit Poll Results
The Yachad party reports that their voting slips have been removed from dozens of voting stations.
Blessed are You, Lord our God, Sovereign of the Universe, who has not made me a politician.
This chart will help you pick the party to vote for...
The all-women Hareidi political party wanted to advertise to their constituency.
The Consumer Price Index sank last month, but the anti-Bibi media buried the news so it won't help Netanyahu.
Baruch Marzel, candidate for the Knesset on the Yachad list, and activist Itamar Ben-Gvir have warned that they will ask that the Elections Committee to void the votes at Arab polling stations if Jewish observers are not allowed. Marzel and Ben Gvir told Independent Media Review and Analysis (IMRA) during the right-wing rally in Tel […]
By JoeSettler
I haven't seen a right-wing rally like this in years. Finally, there is hope.
The Prime Minister's appearance underscores the gap between the right and left-wing parties.
Lapid's boasts do not reflect reality.
Netanyahu promises Kachlon top ministry regardless of party size.
Litzman doesn't disqualify anyone, well, except Lapid, and that may only be before the elections.
By Shalom Bear
An Excited Herzog - "I Will Protect a United Netanyahu"
A lot more people are expected to be at tomorrow's rightwing rally, compared to last week's leftwing rally.
Chabad will be running a special election day campaign.
The election polls reflect the demographics of Israel, united by faith and divided by ideology and tradition.
The Shas chairman, the smartest politician in town, knows a coalition in the hand is better than one in the bush.
Even if his predictions are completely wrong he can still be called an expert!
By Shalom Bear
We could see the Likud or the Zionist Union ending up as junior partners in a future coalition.
By JoeSettler
The polls currently don't look good for the Right, we may need Yachad to create a loud opposition.
The Labor Court will decide today whether to allow the strike.
As the infamous quote says, "We established what you are, now we're just haggling over the price."
The difference is significant enough in this poll, that the Left can finally form a coalition.
Herzog says he and only he can unite the world to stand by Israel against Palestinian Authority terror.
Anti-Zionist Haneen Zoabi may support the "Zionist Union" to lead the government while her cousin Mohammed backs Netanyahu.
Unless Bayit Yehudi builds up seats, a National Unity government is looking like a strong possibility.
By JoeSettler
The definition of elections is voting for the candidate you least dislike.
The party headed by Herzog and Livni blamed the violation of the law on a "local" initiative.
By Shalom Bear
Meretz doesn't seem to understand the Arab sector whom they imagine to be their natural partners and allies.
In this latest election commercial, Netanyahu plays Monopoly with friends, as they ask and beg him to give up Jerusalem.
A large turnout of Bedouin and Arab voters may make the United Arab List the third largest Knesset party.
Eli Yishai is starting to surge upward.
The anti-Bibi barrage last week cost him a grand total of two seats, which went to other parties but not to Bujie and Tzipi.
Rav Ovadia Yosef's hat and robes made an appearance at a Shas political rally on Tuesday.
The report, ordered but never implemented by PM Netanyahu, determined that Israeli settlements are legal according to international law.
Herzog, Livni and their media backers have thrown everything at Netanyahu. Voters are not impressed.
The Left-Right division remains almost the same, but a National Unity government is also feasible.
The so-called "Zionist Camp" was accused of having "blood on its hands."
The State Comptroller and Ombudsman will release his report on the housing crisis at 6 p.m. (11 a.m. EST) Wednesday night. The report will cover the Olmert and Netanyahu administrations, letting Tzipi Livni and Yitzchak Herzog off the hook. They were Ministers of Housing in the Sharon government. The Likud party is concerned that the […]
Shas says the national anthem is just a modern poem, not the Torah.
Everyone goes off the deep end and accuses the other of everything under the sun.
If the "Boycott Yesha" movement is true to its ideology, its cheerleaders won’t vote March 17.
The office of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman stated Sunday that it will release the report on the housing crisis before the elections and possibly by the end of the week. A decision on the exact date of relapse will be made in the next couple of days. Israel's anti-Netanyahu establishment media and the Herzog-Livni […]
The parties keep trading seats back and forth, but the right-left blocks remain the same.
The other leaders are no better: Lapid takes credit for water rates going down and Livni says she is tough on Hamas.
Israelis working as emissaries for B'nei Akiva outside the country should be allowed to vote in next month's elections, World B'nei Akiva director Rabbi Noam Perl wrote Elections Committee chairman Judge Salim Jubran Wednesday. "The fact that the emissaries overseas work for Zionism and for the State of Israel cannot participate in the elections is […]
They distribute ballots to elect the 'Savior."
Please pray for a full and speedy recovery to the People of Israel ben Sarah.
The Supreme Court will rule next week on appeals by Knesset Member Hanin Zoabi and Baruch Marzel to overturn the Elections Committee decision to bar them from running in the elections. One of the justices at the hearing Tuesday morning stated that the court generally does not get involved in politics, but there is a […]
But does one of the disguised "terrorists" look like Bennett?
The parties keep trading seats back and forth, but the right-left blocks remain the same.
The Elections Committee tossed out Marzel hours after eliminating Arab MK Zoabi.
The Supreme Court may reverse the decision. The committee has not decided on Baruch Marzel's candidacy.
Gafni's position: The Left would give the Chareidim more money, but the Right allows more Judaism in the public schools.
Unlike the previous election, this time around Prime Minister Netanyahu is clearly investing his time and efforts to make sure the Likud does well. Repeatedly, his commercials are well thought out and amusing. In this latest commercial Netanyahu is making fun of the Israeli media for coming up with one nonsense scandal or another, while […]
By Rachel Levy
Top US leaders huddle with Israeli opposition candidate Isaac Herzog on sidelines of Munich security talks. Why no 'election proximity' worries?
Liberman said, "You can't be a wimp in the Middle East."
Likud is siphoning off seats from Bayit Yehudi.
Israeli Foreign Minister and Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman holds the latest edition of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo during a protest in support of Charlie Hebdo in Tel Aviv on February 5, 2015. The Israeli election committee forbidden Yisrael Beytenu political party to distribute any gifts or free merchandise to the public […]
The trend in the polls is clear - the next government will not be muscled by the left.
When you try to find out what exactly the leftists want, there is not much of an answer.
Haaretz may not be too pleased with the results of the latest election poll they ran...
The barbed-wire political fence was more than Lieberman could stand.
The US in November stopped funding a left-wing group that is helping to campaign against Netanyahu
Cruz and New York Rep. Zeldin complained to Kerry of Obama's "relentless harassment."
National religious voters favoring the new Yachad party headed by Eli Yishai may be wasting their votes.
Lieberman's issues a disproportionate response to polls that show his party will barely squeeze into the Knesset.
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.
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 […]
He is suffering from a blood disease, His condition has improved slightly.
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.
The Herzog-Livni gimmick of calling itself the "Zionist Camp" looks more absurd every day.
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 […]
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.
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.
The latest polls put Likud back on top, but its being able to form a coalition is less clear cut.
Netanyahu can insert any 2 candidates he wants into the Knesset, he's asked you to choose for him...
By JoeSettler
JoeSettler was surprised this morning when he saw that PM Netanyahu is adopting the electoral reform idea JoeSettler introduced on these pages.
The Likud is recounting some problematic ballot boxes. Hotovely reportedly helped dump Feiglin; Bibi wants her in the Knesset.
Aides to Knesset Member Moshe Feiglin report that he is considering a new party after his being dumped off a realistic position on the Likud candidate list in the party’s primaries last Wednesday night, Walla! News reported. Feiglin announced last week that he will announce his plans for his political future on Monday night at […]
Voters apparently like the Likud’s more centrist list of candidates. Lieberman hurt by bribe scandal. Shas survives.
With Feiglin and Hotovely out of the Knesset, Netanyahu feels safer, but his price might be a bigger Jewish Home party in the next Knesset.
It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good. Feiglin’s loss is the Jewish Home party’s gain.
No one knows who leaked the video of Rav Ovadia, but it's a bombshell, and there might be more on the way.
A ruling against the law will throw the elections into another 30-ring circus.
Too much ideology spoils the political soup.