Elections 2019

How the UK Labour Party became a hotbed of antisemitism

Corbyn was an obscure Labour backbencher whose focus was on foreign policy and, in the run-up to the 2015 party primaries, was thought not to have met the 15 percent threshold.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn makes a campaign speech in Battersea, England, Oct. 31, 2019.
VOTERS AND TELLERS outside a polling station inside Menorah Primary School in Golders Green, London.

British Affairs: Brexit, antisemitism and Britain

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during general election campaign event in Swindon, Britain November 2, 2019

Corbyn rejected by prominent historian of Nazi Germany

A demonstrator carries a sign as teachers and students take part in a protest demanding immediate political change in Algiers, Algeria March 13, 2019

Algeria jails artist ahead of Dec. 12 elections


103 year-old Auschwitz survivor Viola Torok casts vote in elections

Torok is a founder of the Medical School at Ben Gurion University and was honored by the city of Beersheba for her life-time of work to benefit society.

103 year-old Auschwitz survivor Viola Torok casts vote in elections

Unloved former Beit Shemesh mayor to be Shas’ ninth MK

The often criticized former Mayor of Beit Shemesh might make his return as the ninth member of Shas in the Knesset

Shas MK Moshe Abutbul

Majority of public want unity govt with no ultra-Orthodox parties

Fifty-one percent of Likud voters and 90 percent of Blue and White voters don’t want ultra-Orthodox parties in government.

Heads of the Blue and White party, Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid. Avigdor Liberman, Head of rightist Yisrael Beiteinu party. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting, December 2, 2018

Did religion and state win the election? - Analysis

Liberman vocally and forthrightly demanded civil marriage “like any normal country.”

HAREDIM WALK in Jerusalem in front of a ‘Men Only’ sign – the role of religion in public life will likely increase due to demographic trends and the high birth rate in the haredi and national-religious sectors.

Editor's Notes: Can the public trust Netanyahu’s unity offer?

I write this with sadness. Unfortunately, discrimination and racism have become normalized in Israel.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and then-IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz speak in 2013. One of them will likely be asked to form the next government

Stable government – Israel’s strategic necessity

Is it time yet for courageous leadership?

21st Knesset

Grapevine: Remembering a day of triumph

Movers and shakers i Israeli society.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Hilton PR manager Motti Verses in 2013 observing a photograph from 1996, when Netanyahu was a guest of the hotel, showing his reaction to the news he was elected to serve as Prime Minister

My Word: Moving beyond splits and votes

More importantly, each member of the public can choose individually how to respond to the election result, whether it was what they wanted or not.

Exit poles used by Channel 13 showing the number of seats won by Likud and Blue and White September 17

Blue and White vows unity coalition without Netanyahu

Gantz: We will not surrender to any dictate

President Reuven Rivlin has Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz shake hands at memorial ceremony for former president Shimon Peres

Netanyahu cannibalized his own, vilified Israeli Arabs – and fell short

This time, Netanyahu's tactics regarding Arab turnout have failed him

Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu