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


Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein casts his ballot: Don't waste your vote

Knesset Speaker and member of the Likud party Yuli Edelstein cast his ballot in Herzliya on Tuesday morning.

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein votes, September 17, 2019

UTJ's Ya'acov Litzman casts ballot: A fateful and critical day for Israel

United Torah Judaism leader Ya'acov Litzman cast his ballot on Tuesday morning in Jerusalem.

UTJ's Ya'acov Litzman votes, September 17, 2019

Yemina's Ayelet Shaked casts her ballot: We are at war

Yemina leader Ayelet Shaked cast her ballot on Tuesday morning in Tel Aviv.

Yemina leader Ayelet Shaked votes, September 17, 2019

Labor-Gesher's Amir Peretz casts his ballot: It's close, every vote counts

Children in Sderot greeted Peretz at the polling station with drawings of the Iron Dome that they drew specially for him and wished him good luck.

Labor-Gesher leader Amir Peretz votes, September 17, 2019

7 things to look for in Israel’s elections on Tuesday

Somethings to think about for the second round of the elections

A voter in Jerusalem in the last Knesset election on April 9

Moovit to present its users with routes to the ballot on election day

The app aims to help those who use public transportation on their way to the ballot

THE JERUSALEM Central Bus Station and its iconic clock face.

Israel Elections 2019: Everything you need to know

The candidates, parties and where they stand.

Israel Elections

NGO banned from transporting Bedouin voters following Likud petition

Likud, working with right-wing NGO Im Tirzu, cited e-mails Zazim sent to supporters that indicated the NGO planned to provide transportation for 15,000 Bedouin Israelis to polling stations on Election Day so that they would vote for left-wing parties.

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EU offices in Israel vandalized with ‘German money kills Jews’

A right-wing Israeli activist and anti-asylum seekers activist, Sheffi Paz, filmed herself committing the vandalism, and later admitted to it.

Workers adjust a European flag outside the EU Parliament ahead of the EU elections in Brussels

Gantz asks Rivlin not to trust Netanyahu

“If we get one more seat than Likud, we will receive the mandate to form the government,” Blue and White’s co-candidate for prime minister Yair Lapid said.

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz