Blue and White’s Focus Shifts to Unity Government Option
JNS.org – As the clocked counted down the minutes to the initial exit polls at Blue and White Party headquarters, its leaders headed out into the “field,” taking to...
Yamina Alliance Dissolves Hours After Polls Close
The right-wing Yamina alliance announced shortly after polls closed on Tuesday night that it is breaking break into three separate parties. Yamina leader Ayelet Shaked announced the move in...
Lieberman Urges Unity Government
Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman called for a unity government with Likud, Blue and White and his party after receiving a boost in seats in the exit polls...
Lieberman Kingmaker Again with Exit Polls Deadlocked
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s battle for political survival looked set to stretch on for days or weeks after exit polls following Tuesday’s election showed the race too close...
Celebrities Urge Israelis to Get Out and Vote
(Jerusalem Post/JTA) -- Israeli celebrities have rallied around a campaign to raise voter turnout in these unprecedented do-over elections. Most of them did not endorse a specific party, but...
How Israeli Parties Are Getting Out the Vote
Israel’s second general election of 2019 brings the country’s political parties one advantage: experience. In April, they learned — often painfully — that every vote counts, and in Tuesday’s...
Ultra-Orthodox Rally in Jerusalem Ahead of Elections
An estimated 50,000 ultra-Orthodox Israelis converged on Jerusalem’s Bar Ilan intersection on Sunday for a United Torah Judaism Party election rally. Top religious leaders urged them to get out...
Netanyahu Vows to Extend Israeli Sovereignty to Hebron, Kiryat Arba
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that if he is reelected on Tuesday he will extend Israeli sovereignty to Jewish areas of Hebron and neighboring Kiryat Arba.
Netanyahu...
Yamina Reveals Unsubstantiated Details of Trump Peace Plan
Yamina candidate Naftali Bennett revealed on Sunday what he claimed were the details on how the long-awaited U.S. Mideast peace plan would divide the West Bank between Israel and...
Final Israeli Polls Show Likud Besting Blue and White
The final poll in the second round of Israeli elections indicates that the trends of the past two weeks are growing stronger, with the two biggest parties coming in...