Elections 2019

How the UK Labour Party became a hotbed of antisemitism

Corbyn was an obscure Labour backbencher whose focus was on foreign policy and, in the run-up to the 2015 party primaries, was thought not to have met the 15 percent threshold.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn makes a campaign speech in Battersea, England, Oct. 31, 2019.
VOTERS AND TELLERS outside a polling station inside Menorah Primary School in Golders Green, London.

British Affairs: Brexit, antisemitism and Britain

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during general election campaign event in Swindon, Britain November 2, 2019

Corbyn rejected by prominent historian of Nazi Germany

A demonstrator carries a sign as teachers and students take part in a protest demanding immediate political change in Algiers, Algeria March 13, 2019

Algeria jails artist ahead of Dec. 12 elections


Lower the electoral threshold

The system is stuck. Let’s not go into an endless cycle of expensive, wearying elections, expecting better results without any potentially effective changes.

Election results

Yamina to officially split into two blocs

Yamina will still negotiate as one bloc in coalition talks.

Yamina leader Ayelet Shaked speaks at a press conference.

A Knesset adrift - analysis

The Knesset is an independent branch of government, but it’s mostly paralyzed without a coalition

The Likud party meets in the Knesset on September 23, 2019.

22nd Knesset to be sworn in Thursday amid third election talk

There are only eight new MKs this time, and another nine are returning from past stints as legislators, which means that 103 members of the 22nd Knesset will be sworn in for the second time in 2019.

The Knesset

Benjamin Netanyahu: The outgoing king?

#3: Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu

Why Netanyahu and Gantz want us to believe in unity

Israel is not a sport, and running the country is not a game. There are major challenges that need to be confronted, and opportunities that sadly are being missed.

Netanyahu, Rivlin and Gantz holding hands

Reuven Rivlin can be the most influential person in Israel: Here's why

#25: President Reuven Rivlin

Reuven Rivlin

What Jerusalem Post articles were the stars of 5779?

The stories that made you click.

THE HEADQUARTERS of ‘The New York Times’ on 8th Avenue in the eponymous city.

In praise of normalcy

Despite all the fears, voter turnout was quite respectable (the third-highest rate in the seven elections this century).

Paper slips from the 2015 election, at a voting booth in Jerusalem

Netanyahu didn’t win the election, why is he forming the government?

Despite not getting the more votes than Blue and White, Netanyahu still got the chance to form the government. These are the reasons for this development

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a nomination ceremony at the President's residency in Jerusalem September 25, 2019