In February, US-organized summit Warsaw, Poland, brought together Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and representatives from number of Arab states, including Oman, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Kuwait, among other..…
The sheer desire to win shone through from Netanyahu. Video cameras in Arab areas? ..…
Netanyahu said cameras should be everywhere to ensure a “kosher” vote. . ... Netanyahu has developed warmer relationships with Arab leaders than his predecessors did. ..…
Any plan that involves Israeli concessions to get buy-in from Arab countries is almost going to be opposed by Netanyahu's right-wing coalition partners with the power to bring down the government. ..…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accompanied by his Sara, speaks 2019 The results also give other center, left and Arab parties 55 seats at Knesset.. ..…
Four years ago, in the previous elections for the 20th Knesset, 64% of Israel’s voting age Arab population turned out to vote. In the last hours of that Election Day (March 17, 2015), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hysterically and infamously warned his right-wing supporters that “the..…
Nonetheless, the general assessment is that Liberman will wind up joining the coalition; even if he doesn’t, he is seen as unlikely to prevent the formation of the government, or to side with the entire opposition, including Arab MKs, to bring it down. . Pundits on Israel’s Channel 12 and Channel..…
In the bloc, the parties that made it into Knesset are Kahol Lavan, Hadash-Ta'al, Labor, Meretz and United Arab List-Balad. . Netanyahu was one of the first politicians to recognize Iran and fought fiercely in international forums to get the world's attention to this problem. ..…
Special election editions on Wednesday were jam-packed with commentaries and analyses on everything from the campaign to Arab to the debate surrounding Israel.. Yedioth's Sima Kadmon also argued that the election has weakened Netanyahu, and woke up Wednesday morning the provisional prime..…
In the end, he both prevented Blue and White victory cut down the power of his most likely coalition partners, with Kulanu dropping from 10 to four, Jewish Home's eight seats being replaced with Union of Right-Wing Parties five, and Yisrael Beytenu going from six in the election to five this time around. ..…
“When Israel moves away from religious pluralism and towards an Orthodox monopoly on the Jewishness of Israel, that’s another place where we see gaps forming between the Israeli government and American Jews,” said Libby Lenkinski, vice president for public engagement at the New Israel Fund, which..…
But Arab voters, who make up 20 percent of the electorate, were expected to boycott the vote amid accusations that Netanyahu was inciting the public against them. . . ..…
Netanyahu’s message of unity was a sharp contrast from his campaign theme in which he accused Gantz of conspiring with Arab parties to topple him. Arab leaders accused Netanyahu of demonizing the country’s Arab community, which is about 20 percent of the..…
There were numerous accusations of gerrymandering and intimidation of Arab voters. Supporters of Netanyahu’s Likud party were caught installing cameras and recording devices in polling booths in Arab towns. ..…
At the time, the vote of Arab Ram-Balad party is also hovering around the threshold level, and it could stymie Netanyahu's chance of forming coalition. ..…
Many voters, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of anti-Arab incitement, have decided to boycott this year's vote. . ... Arab parties could struggle to receive enough votes to enter parliament, potentially bolstering Netanyahu's Likud party and its hardline allies...…