Posts Tagged: Netanyahu elections
Will Fourth Israeli Elections Lead to a Fifth?
On March 23, Israelis will go to the polls for the fourth time in the past 18 months, amid fears that a fifth round of...
Will Arab Voters Give Netanyahu the Victory?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent speech in Nazareth and his courtship of Israeli Arabs' votes constitute a tremendous strategic change for him. Only six years ago,...
Netanyahu Needs to Reinvent Himself
JNS.org - The road to Israel’s 2020 general election runs through the Likud Party primaries. An Israel Hayom poll released on Friday that predicted Israeli...
Netanyahu’s Undemocratic Tactics Cost Him the Election
JNS.org - It’s still unclear whether Israel’s next election will be in four years or four months. But either way, if the center-right wants a...
Netanyahu Calls for Emergency Election Committee Meeting on ‘Voter Fraud’
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday called for an emergency meeting with the head of the Central Election Committee, Supreme Court Judge...
The Stakes Have Never Been Higher in Israel’s Elections
As Israel prepares for the parliamentary election in September, its second in five months, most national security experts, politically savvy individuals, and academics suggest that...
Is This the End for Netanyahu?
Although Benjamin Netanyahu has now become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, projections suggest that MK and former defense minister Avigdor Lieberman will achieve his objective and...
Israeli Democracy Is Not in Crisis
JNS.org - Israelis are rightly infuriated that their politicians couldn’t get their act together and form a government after national elections held on April 9....
Is This the Start of the Post-Netanyahu Era?
JNS.org - In an unprecedented move, the Knesset that was elected in April voted to dissolve itself this week. That means Israelis will have yet...
The Case Against Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to call for an early election, scheduled to take place on April 9, was nothing short of another political...
The ‘Anybody but Bibi’ Camp’s Bluster
JNS.org - In a typical tirade against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu on Tuesday, Hatnuah Party chair Tzipi Livni said, “No leader in Israel...
In Israeli Elections, the Mudslinging Is Only Beginning
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Likud officials’ sharp criticism of former Habayit Hayehudi leader Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked...
Lost Votes Could Sink the Israeli Right
JNS.org - The departure of Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked from Habayit Hayehudi has left the religious Zionist party confused and reeling, but it’s not the only...
Bibi, King of Israel
Beginning in the early 1990’s, when I began hosting Israel’s then-Deputy Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Oxford, I was blown away by his passion for...
