israeli elections

TEL AVIV – Israelis will head to the polls for the third time in a year as the Knesset voted to dissolve itself Wednesday night after 11th hour attempts to form a government failed.

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There are important lessons for President Donald Trump to draw from the deadlocked Israeli election for his own 2020 re-election campaign.

With 89.8 percent of votes having been counted by the Central Elections Committee, Benny Gantz’s centrist Blue and White party on Wednesday was projected to secure 32 seats in the Knesset, edging ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, which stood at 31 seats.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) told CBS News’ Face the Nation that she hoped Israelis realized that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “existence” prevents peace in the region.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday confirmed that his administration would likely release its long-delayed peace plan after Israel’s elections in September.

Israel would be making a catastrophic error were Ron Dermer to be replaced after September — especially because of a technicality in Israeli election law.

Benjamin Netanyahu became Israel’s longest-serving prime minister on Friday, and he is favored to win the next elections in September. But the Trump administration is concerned that his political future may not be secure.

Israel’s leading opposition party, Blue and White, has hired American political strategist Joel Benenson, who has previously worked  for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, in its effort to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday fired ministers Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett, leaders of the New Right party that failed to cross the electoral threshold in the April 9 elections.

Because of Avigdor Liberman’s personal vendetta against Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli public has been denied their right to a government.

Israeli voters will have a second chance to choose their next government on September 17, after a small conservative party blocked a coalition between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and smaller  parties on the right.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called newly re-elected Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government “racist” during a CNN town hall in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Monday night — and Republicans are pointing on the claim.

While conservative Jewish American groups congratulated Israelis for their open democracy, liberal American Jewish groups responded to the Israeli election results by throwing a collective fit

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wished a “mazal tov” to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday in congratulations for his victory in the Knesset elections.

TEL AVIV – After almost all the votes had been tallied Wednesday, a clear picture of a country divided along partisan lines emerged, with Likud and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu representing one half of the map and Blue and White- and the dream of changing the “old guard” that its leader Benny Gantz symbolized for so many – standing in for the other. 

The Times of Israel reports: Tel Aviv’s Kvuzat Shlomo hall, where Likud plans to hold its end-of-election-day event Tuesday at 11 p.m., is buzzing with activity.At the home of the Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball team, dozens of reporters have either started

TEL AVIV — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party has been sounding the alarm throughout the day here, warning voters that the party is on the brink of a potentially devastating election loss that would lead to the formation of a “left-wing” government.

TEL AVIV – The U.S. is fully aware of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s flat rejection of the creation of a Palestinian state along with his plans to annex West Bank settlements, the Israeli premier said on Monday.

Benjamin Netanyahu says ‘coming from a friend’ he expects Trump’s plan will take Israel’s interests into consideration.

Democrat presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “racist” on Sunday, telling an audience in Iowa that the U.S.-Israel relationship must “transcend a prime minister who is racist.”

If Gantz defeats Netanyahu in the Israeli election, his will be a victory for the establishment — aided by prosecutors — and not a generational change.

TEL AVIV – The mud-slinging between the two main parties vying for election victory next week continued Monday when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Blue and White party of seeing Likud voters as “bots” rather than “real people,” amid reports of fake pro-Netanyahu Twitter accounts.

The timing of Trump’s statement on the Golan Heights was less driven by politics and more a function of recent developments in Syria.

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit will on Thursday announce his intention to charge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with criminal offenses in all three cases against him, including bribery in the Bezeq corruption probe, Hebrew-language media reported Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – A foreign country “intends to intervene” in Israeli elections in April using cyberattacks, the Shin Bet chief revealed Tuesday according to Hadashot TV news.

Last Wednesday, Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman resigned his position in protest over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to agree to a ceasefire with Hamas.

Israel is due to hold elections early next year after the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, lost his defence minister and talks broke down in his coalition government on Friday, a source close to the cabinet told the Guardian.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised Sunday the possibility of snap elections following a dispute with his finance minister over a new national broadcasting service.

President Barack Obama has a poor record when it comes to intervening in foreign elections. His clumsy attempt in April to encourage British voters to choose to remain in the European Union may have backfired, after Obama threatened that Britain would be sent to the “back of the queue” in trade relations with the U.S. if it chose Brexit. He repeated the mistakes of his effort to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s 2015 elections, which likewise delivered a poll-defying rebuke.