Israel Elections 2019v2

Netanyahu will be to blame if Israel heads to third elections - poll

The 103fm survey shows that 52% consider the PM responsible for a scenario in which Israel will once again go to the polls • The center-left camp would win 58 seats today

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Avigdor Liberman (L) Naftali Bennett (R)

Bennett and Liberman push for unity government without Joint List

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks at his watch before delivering a statement at the Knesset, Israel's parliament,

The promises politicians need to break to prevent a third election

The Knesset

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


Grapevine: Corruption allegations not a priority for Israeli voters

Many people polled were still undecided as to which party will get their vote, and when asked, have replied that they will decide when they get to the ballot box.

Yona Bartal (left) with Doris Hifawi

Odeh reiterates Joint List will not be part of Gantz government

Says sees himself as future prime minister of the State of Israel

Joint List leader Ayman Odeh addresses the Knesset: Odeh has suggested, for the first time, that Israeli Arabs would be willing to join a government coalition

Tibi puts price tag on Gantz blocking majority

Tibi said his demands include a development plan for the Arab sector that would cost 64 billion shekels over 10 years or 32 billion over five years.

IMPORTANT VOICES too. Election campaign banners depict Ahmad Tibi and Ayman Odeh, leaders of the Hadash-Ta’al joint list that ran in the April elections

Is annexation the antidote?

The more precarious Netanyahu's position appears, the more he will court the settlers.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets students as they wave Israeli flags during a ceremony opening the school year in the settlement of Elkana on September 1, 2019.

Netanyahu, Shaked to campaign in English

Netanyahu's event, which requires prior registration will be held on September 5 at Ramat Gan's Kfar Hamaccabiah Hotel.

A Likud election poster shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with US President Donald Trump under the slogan, ‘Netanyahu. In a league of his own’

10 trends in Israel’s regional foreign policies

Every six months, the Mitvim Institute maps key trends in Israel’s regional foreign policies based on the institute’s monthly reports that monitor ongoing developments.

The new Likud posters show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

Left asks Supreme Court not to let far Right run

Labor-Gesher joined Blue and White, the Democratic Union and the Reform Movement in filing the appeal, which must be decided by the Court no later than Sunday.

An ad for the Otzma Yehudit party with Dr. Michael Ben-Ari, Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Bentzi Gopstein on a bus in Jerusalem, March, 2019

Far-right Noam Party accuses progressive Jews of attempted genocide…of Jews

“They infiltrate the IDF so we lose in war. They are destroying the family and childbirth to stop a Jewish majority, they advance assimilation to wipe us off the map.”

Rabbi Tzvi Tau

Media Comment: It’s election time, again

FAREWELL TO the Knesset

Why is religious-Zionist Smotrich dreaming of a halachic state? - analysis

“Jewish law is something the ultra-Orthodox want to implement in their daily lives but it is not relevant to how a state should function.”

Bezalel Smotrich.