2013 Israeli election

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The ministers of the thirty-fourth government of Israel, alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Israel’s upcoming elections will have plenty of surprises in store

Israeli voters will head to the polls in three-and-a-half months to elect a new government. Here’s what that means, and where the elections may go. After weeks of feverish speculation, the Israeli governing coalition voted unanimously on Monday to disband the Knesset and call early elections in April 2019. Prime Minister Netanyahu had kept the country…

By Dahlia Scheindlin December 25, 2018

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (photo: Yotam Ronen / Activestills.org)

The post-Netanyahu era starts tomorrow

Bibi will be the lamest of ducks in his next and last term as PM. Hold the applause, though – what’s rising up to take his place is worse. If, as expected tomorrow, Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu gets in the low-30s in Knesset seats, this election will mark the beginning of the post-Netanyahu era. Bibi will remain as…

By Larry Derfner January 21, 2013