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

|ByNISSIM MASHAAL/103FM
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Avigdor Liberman (L) Naftali Bennett (R)

Bennett and Liberman push for unity government without Joint List

Liberman stressed that the only option is a liberal national unity government.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, GIL HOFFMAN
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 problem in the coalition talks can be succinctly summarized as follows: Everyone is keeping their promises.

|ByLAHAV HARKOV
The Knesset

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.

|ByLAHAV HARKOV

Polls show Democratic Union Party to net 8-12 seats

Barak wooing Livni, vows more mergers after bond with Meretz, Shaffir.

JULY 25, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN, JEREMY SHARON
Israel Democratic Party's Ehud Barak, MK Stav Shaffir and Meretz's Nitzan Horowitz of the Democratic Camp

Netanyahu media adviser blasted for ‘sexist’ comments against Shaked

“I got Blazer early this week,” Orich commented snidely, ostensibly comparing Shaked derisively to the front-page models of an Israeli “men’s magazine.”

JULY 25, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON
A picture of Ayelet Shaked on the cover of the Yediot Aharonot newspaper

URP official: Shaked is a figurehead, Bennett pulls the strings

The New Right Party denied the claims, calling the reports "nonsense."

JULY 24, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Head of New Right party Naftali Bennett [L] and MK Ayelet Shaked [R]

Talks on uniting right begin between Rafi Peretz and Ayelet Shaked

A statement issued by the party said that the meeting was "good and productive."

JULY 23, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
Ayelet Shaked and Rafi Peretz

Deri says Shas backing Netanyahu for PM, blames Liberman for elections

“We are supporting Netanyahu, we are at Netanyahu’s side,” said Deri.

JULY 22, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON
PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Shas party leader Arye Deri

Daily Mail in response to Barak libel suit: We stand by our story

"We note that Mr. Barak’s assertion that he was not party to Mr. Epstein’s illegal activities is a denial of a claim we have never made."

JULY 18, 2019ByTZVI JOFFRE
Former Prime Minister and Labor party leader Ehud Barak talks to journalists at The Israel Project in Jerusalem

Likud: Blue and White must fire strategist

Hadash: Party’s ad is racist against Arabs

JULY 14, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
A Blue and White campaign billboard that contrasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-Right allies with party leader Benny Gantz and his party members offering the caption "The Nation of Israel Lives."

Previewing the political bonds of the week ahead

Politics: Picking the winning teams?

JULY 12, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu, with Avigdor Liberman in the row behind him, sits in the Knesset on May 29, the night MKs voted to go to new elections.

Peretz, Barak meet amid pessimism

The two veteran politicians both tweeted after the meeting that they met in a “very good atmosphere and mutual respect.”

JULY 10, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
Labor head Amir Peretz and Israel Democratic Party head Ehud Barak

Barak’s return

Whether or not you support Ehud Barak, Israel’s most decorated soldier is no idiot.

JULY 10, 2019BySTEVE LINDE
Ehud Barak