The post of mayor and 30 city council seats were at stake in determining Jerusalem’s future.
A joint Labor-Meretz party would win seven seats, according to the poll
Other than Golan, the only other person to announce her candidacy is current Labor MK Efrat Rayten.
Israel – especially its government – must learn from its mistakes; otherwise, the next disaster may be just as tragic or worse.
Gantz's US trip not only spotlights his independence from Netanyahu, it positions him as the prime frontrunner to become Israel's new Prime Minister.
Ultra-Orthodox paper Yated Ne'eman blasts secular Jews amid draft law debate, claiming Torah study is key to Jewish survival, not military service.
Some argue that Benny Gantz is better able to do this than Netanyahu, whose relationship with US President Joe Biden is believed to be strained and who is anathema to some Congressional Democrats.
How is it conceivable that the lives of these individuals have become an issue over which there is no consensus and no outcry? How is there more than one side to the “hostage question”?
Weinberg, 65, will be serving as a city council member in the town of Kiryat Tivon, southeast of Haifa. She is a mother of two and also a grandmother.
Election campaigns can indeed be divisive and often nasty. But they do not have to be, and the municipal election this week was a reminder of this.