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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 Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo: Haim Zach/GPO)

Why the ‘hijacking’ of Israeli democracy is a myth

We often hear that that Israeli democracy is being ‘hijacked’ by a group of right-wing extremists. Too bad the alternatives aren’t any more appealing. Labor MK Stav Shaffir, darling of the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” crowd, recently implored progressive American Jews to do what liberal Zionists have been attempting for the better half of the past decade: reclaim…

By Edo Konrad November 8, 2015