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Dear Ehud, More than a decade ago, when you took the stage at some crowded Tel Aviv banquet hall and gave your first speech as Israel’s prime minister-elect, I was standing in the back of the room,...
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Fatah and Hamas announced this week they would be creating an interim unity government and holding elections within a year, in what Haaretz called a heskem piyus histori, a “historic reconciliation...
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Israel’s Next Chief Rabbi Has Illustrious Shoes To Fill
Earlier this week, Israel’s religious Zionist party, known in recent years as Habayit Hayehudi (“the Jewish Home”) and now headed by Naphtali Bennett, threw its support behind David Stav, rabbi of the...
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A Guide to Today's Labor Party Elections: Shelly Yachimovich Faces Off...
Shelly Yachimovich, the leader of the Labor party—and, by extension, of the Knesset opposition—faces the very real possibility of losing both her jobs tonight, when results of today’s party primaries...
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Today's News: Israel Defense Forces Team Leaves Philippines; 'Knockout' Fears...
• Worry over the rising trend of ‘knockout’ attacks in Brooklyn, N.Y. mixes with fears among the Jewish community that they are being specifically targeted. [NYT] • The 148-person Israel Defense Forces...
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How Isaac Herzog Could Be Israel’s New Kingmaker
Two weeks ago, Isaac Herzog—son of Chaim Herzog, Israel’s sixth president—won an overwhelming upset victory in the Labor Party primaries, ousting the incumbent Shelly Yachimovich. It was a virtual...
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Israeli Politician or Character on 'The Wire'?
This week, the AP reported on the phenomenon of Israeli politicians carrying on with their semi-important duties all while having slightly ridiculous nicknames. This isn’t anything new, but with the...
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Israeli Labor’s New Leader Looking to Obama and de Blasio As Models
On a recent cool but sunny afternoon, I sat waiting for Isaac Herzog, the new leader of Israel’s Labor Party, at a sleepy café near his home in the tree-lined Tel Aviv neighborhood of Tsahala. Herzog,...
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Welcome to AIPAC, the Greatest Show on Earth
American Jews have long been renowned for their talents in show business, and last night, they put on a clinic, complete with a rousing climactic musical number that brought down the house. No, I’m not...
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Should a Closeted Gay Member of Israel's Knesset Be Outed?
The Israeli Labor Party’s struggle to recapture the prime minister’s office in the upcoming March elections is an uphill battle, with the party’s leader, Isaac “Buji” Herzog, toiling to position...
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Campaign Videos Stir Controversy in Israel as Election Season Heats Up
Making sense of the Israeli elections is a difficult task. With a vast array of political parties to choose from, and with each throwing blame and pointing fingers at the others, the election season...
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Shimon Peres Endorses Isaac Herzog in Israeli Knesset Race
With the Knesset election less than one week away, everyone from celebrities to pundits are weighing in. There’s another bold-face name to add to the list of endorsers: former Israeli President Shimon...
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Israeli Election Polls Show Netanyahu Lagging Behind Herzog-Livni Union
Four days before the Israeli elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Isaac ‘Buji’ Herzog are fighting over just four seats. A Yedioth Ahronoth poll published today showed Herzog and Tzipi...
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Who Won Israel's Elections?
UPDATE 1:06am: With 99% of the vote tallied, Likud has opened a 29-24 lead over Isaac Herzog’s Zionist Union, in a late right-wing voting surge missed by the exit polls. Though Netanyahu will still...
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Ramaz Students Sound Off on Alum Isaac Herzog
You might not think high school students in New York City would be that invested in the Israeli elections. But when one of the potential prime ministers is an alumnus of your Jewish day school, you pay...
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How Netanyahu Used Television To Win
The latest Israeli election campaign seemed to last 105 days—from the moment Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Finance Minister Yair Lapid and then went on to...
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WATCH: The Most In-Your-Face Political Ad Ever For the Israeli Left Just...
Entrepreneur-turned-Knesset member Erel Margalit appears to have unofficially launched a bid for the leadership of the center-left Labor party. His announcement came in the form of an unusually...
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What American Liberals Stunned by Trump Could Learn From the Israeli Left
For anyone who has studied the operatic stumblings of the Israeli left—a two-decade pratfall punctuated by short stabs of hope and long dives into agony—the surprise election of Donald J. Trump may...
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Israel's Labor Party Postpones Primary Election Due to Britney Spears Concert
When you think of Israeli politics, you probably don’t think of Britney Spears. That is, until now. The legendary American pop star has made headlines because she is scheduled to give a concert in Tel...
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In the Israeli Labor Party's Decline, Lessons On How Not to Do Politics
One of my favorite jokes growing up told of a group of prisoners in the Gulag who were finally fed up with their miserable conditions and worked up the courage to complain. To their surprise, their...
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