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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Election analysis: A shared Netanyahu-Herzog government?

Herzog and Bibi’s political interests and the fragmented Knesset that is likely to emerge after the elections might force Likud and Labor into a power-sharing deal. Avigdor Liberman and President Rivlin already support the idea. The Israeli Labor Party, which will participate in the upcoming election under the banner of “The Zionist Camp,” held its…

By Noam Sheizaf January 15, 2015

National unity gov’t splits; PM likely to call, win early elections

After only 70 days, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s mega-coalition shrank back to 66 members of Knesset yesterday. Kadima, the Knesset’s biggest party, decided to leave the government over the failure to reach an agreement on national draft reform. A few takeaways: 1. The entire maneuver that resulted in the national unity government was a mistake by…

By Noam Sheizaf July 18, 2012

Inconvenient truths. Netanyahu speaking to the Jewish Agency. (Photo: Jewish Agency for Israel, cc by-nd 2.0)

Through deal, Bibi buys ‘industrial peace’ for Iran war

It wasn’t domestic politics that prompted Netanyahu last night to forgo early elections; it was the need to clear out his calendar. Why does a national leader decide to scrap new elections that he and everyone else knows he’s going to win by a landslide, which is what Bibi did last night? Because he’s got important work to…

By Larry Derfner May 7, 2012

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