Nearly three weeks after having been named by President Shimon Peres to form the next government, Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself between a rock and a hard place. He is supposed to have formed a coalition by early March, with the…
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Sitting Down With Amos Oz
By Roger Cohen The New York Times / International Herald Tribune, January 28, 2013 Tel Aviv AMOS Oz, the novelist whose stories and tales have probed the soul of Israel with an intimate insistence, greeted me to his book-lined apartment…
Window of Opportunity
You will find an interesting analysis of last Israeli elections results done by Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of JStreet Never underestimate Israel’s ability to surprise. All the polls and pundits ahead of Tuesday’s elections predicted a striking shift to…
Lapid’s List Says It All
J.J. Goldberg The Daily Beast/Open Zion, Jan 25, 2013 Excerpt: Lapid, unburdened by a primary process or party structure, hand-picked his list. The first person he named, in a dramatic mid-October press conference in Tel Aviv, was Yaakov Perry, former…
Friday night TV polls show right-wing bloc heading to victory
Final surveys indicate Netanyahu set to win Tuesday; Likud-Beytenu projected to take 32-34 seats, with Labor at 16-17; Yesh Atid, Meretz grow stronger By Yifa Yaakov and Yoel Goldman Polls released Friday by Channel 1 and Channel 2, the last…
Final polls give right wing narrowest lead of race
Four days before elections, support for Likud-Beytenu is lower than ever; 15% of voters remain undecided By Ron Friedman and Yoel Goldman Polls released Friday, the last date permitted by election law for publishing pre-election surveys, give the right wing-Orthodox…