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‘I don’t know her’: How Israeli elections disregard women voters
By ignoring women's policy preferences, Israeli parties are not just deepening gender inequality — they're shifting the country further right.
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Noa Balf
January 11, 2021
How the Joint List has already made history in Israel
No matter what happens on election day, or what kind of coalition is formed afterwards, the Joint List’s very existence has already changed the face of Israeli history. The fact that the Joint List is likely to be the third largest slate in the next Knesset means they cannot be ignored. All the Israeli papers,…
By
Mairav Zonszein
March 15, 2015
The violent roots of Israel’s Labor party
The Labor party’s glory days included the Nakba, conquering and settling the West Bank and East Jerusalem and other affairs Israeli society has yet to begin processing. By Tom Pessah Senior Labor MK Shelly Yachimovich published the following status on her personal Facebook page a few weeks ago: “Hi this is Shelly. Spot the differences: education…
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+972 Magazine
March 9, 2015
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Netanyahu is not Ben-Gurion, and 2015 is not 1948
The Israeli prime minister is not using his Congress speech to gain votes in this election, rather, he is using his election campaign to gain favor for the Congress speech and serve his megalomaniac vision of being the savior of Jews worldwide. Netanyahu’s recent campaign video, released Saturday night, has nothing to do with the…
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Mairav Zonszein
February 22, 2015
The threat of hope and truth in elections devoid of both
Proponents of a strong democracy should welcome young citizens sounding their voices. But a prime minister who builds his campaign on fear mongering clearly feels threatened by anyone grouping together the words ‘hope,’ ‘truth’ and ‘politics.’ By Don Futterman There is nothing Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party finds so threatening as hope and truth. While…
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February 18, 2015
‘A Palestinian state isn’t the solution, but it’s a step in the right direction’: Meet MK Jamal Zahalka
Chairman of the Balad party says that unification of Israel’s Arab parties is nothing short of historic — both in Israel and the Arab world: ‘There has never been unity between the communists, nationalists and Islamists.’ In an interview, Zahalka talks about his party’s appeal to Jewish voters, why the Joint List won’t join an…
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Orly Noy
February 5, 2015
The Israeli government’s election gift to West Bank settlers
Netanyahu tells supporters at a settlement campaign event that Israel will continue to build in the West Bank, as his Likud party competes with more hawkish parties for settler votes. Erekat calls for boycott, divestment in response. Less than a month and a half before general elections, the Israeli government published tenders for 430 new…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
January 30, 2015
Should a joint Arab list trump Jewish-Arab unity? Not so fast
The temptation of the Arab parties to unite in order to form a stronger political bloc is great. Everyone wants to give Liberman the election surprise of a lifetime. But what is the cost? By Sinai Peter Israel’s upcoming elections came out of nowhere. Despite the early warnings and the raising of the electoral threshold…
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+972 Magazine
January 14, 2015
WATCH: Rightists campaign on hate, incitement and arrogance
Two different election campaign videos released by major right-wing candidates have one major thing in common: they are very clear about what and who they are against, yet indicate next to nothing about what they stand for. In a highly incendiary video, Likud Knesset member Danny Danon, who was fired from his position as deputy defense…
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Mairav Zonszein
December 25, 2014
Elections called off; Kadima joins huge Netanyahu coalition
With 94 out of the Knesset’s 120 members behind him, the prime minister might have enough political support to launch war with Iran despite the opposition within the security establishment. This was the shortest election cycle in history: On Sunday, Likud brought to a Knesset vote a bill moving elections up to September 4, officially…
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Noam Sheizaf
May 7, 2012
AIPAC predicted Obama victory, Bibi called early elections
Ben Caspit, diplomatic correspondent for the Israeli daily Maariv, reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to call early elections in Israel was the result of the assessment by leaders of AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby in Washington, that President Barack Obama would be reelected in 2012. Netanyahu’s coalition surprised the political system last week when it was…
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Noam Sheizaf
May 5, 2012
Israeli public preps for elections: Just ‘don’t mention the war!’
Election season has begun, and the Israeli public desperately wants one thing: escapism. Last night, after the Israeli election was set for September 4, I saw a guy wearing a T-shirt that I thought summed up the public mood, which the main “opposition” candidates have been and will be catering to. The T-shirt showed a comically wide-eyed, frightened John Cleese and his classic line from Fawlty Towers: “Don’t mention the…
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Larry Derfner
May 3, 2012
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