The Almost Final Results: Even Steven
These are the final results for the elections to the 19th Knesset.
View ArticleSome Numbers Can Still Change
Counting of the 250,000 votes from soldiers, hospitals, embassies and prisoners are expected to only be completed on Thursday. As a result, some of the party numbers may still change. There are...
View ArticleWill Congress Investigate Obama’s Attempt to Derail Bibi?
President Obama was issuing a not so subtly veiled threat to the Israeli voters.
View ArticleUnexpected Results Call Makeup Of Future Israeli Coalition Into Question
JERUSALEM – With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu slate, still expected to be tapped by President Shimon Peres to form Israel’s 33rd government, its makeup...
View ArticleLikud Leads, But Rise Of Yesh Atid, Jewish Home Bode Bumpy Road Ahead For...
TEL AVIV – His party shrunk, his opponents grew and his challengers multiplied. But with the results in, it seems Benjamin Netanyahu survived the Knesset elections Tuesday to serve another term as...
View ArticleLapid on Jerusalem and the Palestinians
Yesh Atid perceives a possible peace process as a response to an ensemble of threats looming over the State of Israel.
View ArticleNetanyahu Finally Called Bennett
Two days after the elections ended, PM Netanyahu finally decided to call HaBayit HaYehudi (Jewish Home) head Naftali Bennett. The two did not set a time they would meet, and rumors from within the...
View ArticleBibi-Tours and Bennett
Rumors are flying in the Israeli media today that the other possible reason between the acrimonious relationship between Bibi and Bennett is the anonymous claim that Bennett leaked information that led...
View ArticleLiberman Meets with Bennett
While Netanyahu reportedly has his hands full with Yair Lapid’s coalition demands, Avigdor Liberman met with Naftali Bennett today to discuss Bennett’s joining the coalition, according to Avigdor...
View ArticleNetanyahu Tasked with Forming Government
Tasked with the job of forming the next coalition government, Netanyahu sets out his goals for this term.
View ArticleBibi and Bennett Meet
Following a 5 year estrangement, Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu finally met in Tel Aviv. The meeting, held in the government’s offices in the Kirya, took place...
View ArticleLatest Coalition Building Rumors and Threats from Israel
Nasty threats, mistreatment, rumors, and a general lack of trust define this government's coalition building attempts.
View ArticleLikud-Beteinu Closes First Partner (updated)
It only took a month, but Likud-Beteinu finally managed to close a deal with its first coalition partner, Tzipi Livni’s HaTnua party. Livni will reportedly receive the Justice Ministry and be an inner...
View ArticlePeres Grants Netanyahu Two More Weeks
After failing to assemble a coalition within the legally allotted month, Prime Minister Netanyahu went back to President Shimon Peres on Saturday night to ask for an extension. Peres granted Netanyahu...
View ArticleBennett to Get Finance Ministry
Netanyahu challenged them, but Bennett and Lapid apparently worked it out.
View ArticleUTJ Calls for New Elections
The Hareidi party, UTJ, proposed a bill in the Knesset calling for new elections to be held within 90 days. The bill, drafted by MK Uri Maklev, and signed by all the UTJ members, stated that the...
View ArticleLapid Holds Up Coalition, But Rumors Fly that an Alternative Coalition Might...
With just days left until the coalition deadline, any of these rumors and leaks could be true.
View ArticleLikud-Beytenu to Split?
An Israel Channel 10 report speculated on Sunday that Likud and Yisrael Beytenu are headed their separate ways. Avigdor Liberman will be holding a press conference at 11:00 AM on Monday, where it is...
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