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Topic: Am Shalem party

January 24, 2013
4:22 pm

The official count of Israeli votes, as of Thursday afternoon (photo credit: screen capture Government election's site)

The numbers behind the results

Netanyahu won less than a quarter of the popular vote; final turnout 67.52%; over 250,000 envelopes went to waste

By Aaron Kalman

January 23, 2013
5:16 pm

Knesset members stand during a ceremony marking 17 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, on October 28, 2012. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

In the next Knesset, a radical case of musical chairs

It’s out with the old — more than 50 of them — and in with the new

By Gabe Fisher

January 20, 2013
4:07 pm

A man walks by a poster depicting Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett, at an election conference in Jerusalem on December 23, 2012. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

And Naftali Bennett wins… on Wikipedia

Ascendant right-wing leader receives far more views on his Hebrew-language page than any of his rivals — including Netanyahu

By Gabe Fisher

January 17, 2013
5:15 pm

Elections and the Jewish question: it’s Amsalem for me

He symbolizes a return to Utopian Zionism, aspiring to merge the national with the universal

By Elya Tzur

January 17, 2013
12:27 pm

Sheets of newly printed ballots seen at a printing house in Jerusalem, January 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Near-final polls disagree on size of Likud, right

With less than a week before vote, right-wing bloc predicted to win as many as 72 seats and as few as 65

By Gabe Fisher and Aaron Kalman

January 16, 2013
10:31 pm

A worker prepares ballot boxes for the upcoming Israeli election, at a warehouse in Shoham, near Tel Aviv, January 8, 2013. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

New poll shows Likud-Beytenu continuing to slide

Channel 10 survey has ruling party slipping to 32 seats, Labor receiving 16, Jewish Home 14, and 11 seats each for Shas and Yesh Atid

By Adiv Sterman

January 13, 2013
10:47 am

Counting remaining ballots from soldiers and absentees at the Knesset in Jerusalem after the 2009 elections (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Who would Maimonides vote for?

Your cut-out-and-keep guide (okay, your bookmark and reopen guide) to the runners and riders (sorry, parties and politicians) who’ll be running our lives

By Raphael Ahren

January 1, 2013
10:28 am

The empty plenum hall of the Knesset in 2011 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud-Beytenu continues to bleed votes to Jewish Home, new poll finds

Ruling party projected to receive only 34 seats, as opposed to 15 for Naftali Bennett’s list, which is swelled by support from the non-Orthodox

By Gabe Fisher

December 14, 2012
5:45 am

MK Rabbi Haim Amsalem, founder of the political Am Shalem movement, with which he is running in the upcoming Israeli elections, meets with Israelis in Tel Aviv as part of his campaign tour, December 12, 2012. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox Knesset candidate gives secular voters his spiel

Bar-hopping rabbi talks to Tel Aviv revelers about his ‘live and let live’ philosophy, except for when it comes to gay Israelis

By Stuart Winer and Yoel Goldman

December 11, 2012
11:23 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud party and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman of the Yisrael Beytenu party hold a joint press conference announcing the two parties joining forces, October 25, 2012. (photo credit:

Likud-Beytenu alliance holds steady at top in latest poll

But gap between right-wing and center-left coalitions down to only six Knesset seats, according to Walla survey

By Gabe Fisher

December 3, 2012
10:54 pm

Yisrael Hasson objects to his fellow legislators' planned break off from Kadima and joining of Tzipi Livni's Hatnua, Monday (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset gives okay for Kadima MKs to join Livni’s new party

Legislators to bring millions in public funding to former minister

By Aaron Kalman

November 27, 2012
11:22 am

Right-wing politician Moshe Feiglin waves after the release of party primary election results on Monday, November 26 (photo credit: Flash90)

One in 10 voters could reconsider their party of choice due to Likud’s rightward shift, poll predicts

Netanyahu’s party, and Israel’s right, still seems en route to comfortable victory in January’s election — even with Livni joining the race

By Ron Friedman

November 25, 2012
1:29 am

US-born Rabbi Dov Lipman, right, and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid (photo credit: Yaakov Lederman)

‘Anglo’ Haredi activist will run for Knesset seat with Yair Lapid

US-born Rabbi Dov Lipman, an advocate for ultra-Orthodox integration, to be placed between 11th and 20th spot on Yesh Atid’s slate

By Elie Leshem

November 1, 2012
8:34 pm

Minister of Communications Moshe Kahlon, in the Knesset in August. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/FLASH90)

Polls give Likud’s Kahlon 10-20 seats — but he’s undecided, wants to retain good ties with PM

Popular minister torn between a ‘time out’ and a run against Netanyahu

By Asher Zeiger and Times of Israel staff

November 1, 2012
5:39 pm

As he ponders breakaway, new poll gives 10 seats to outgoing Likud minister Kahlon

Earlier survey had predicted 20 seats for popular politician, torn between a ‘time out’ and a run against Netanyahu

By Asher Zeiger and Times of Israel staff

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: Am Shalem party

The numbers behind the results

Netanyahu won less than a quarter of the popular vote; final turnout 67.52%; over 250,000 envelopes went to waste

In the next Knesset, a radical case of musical chairs

It’s out with the old — more than 50 of them — and in with the new

And Naftali Bennett wins… on Wikipedia

Ascendant right-wing leader receives far more views on his Hebrew-language page than any of his rivals — including Netanyahu

Elections and the Jewish question: it’s Amsalem for me

He symbolizes a return to Utopian Zionism, aspiring to merge the national with the universal

Near-final polls disagree on size of Likud, right

With less than a week before vote, right-wing bloc predicted to win as many as 72 seats and as few as 65

New poll shows Likud-Beytenu continuing to slide

Channel 10 survey has ruling party slipping to 32 seats, Labor receiving 16, Jewish Home 14, and 11 seats each for Shas and Yesh Atid

Who would Maimonides vote for?

Your cut-out-and-keep guide (okay, your bookmark and reopen guide) to the runners and riders (sorry, parties and politicians) who’ll be running our lives

Likud-Beytenu continues to bleed votes to Jewish Home, new poll finds

Ruling party projected to receive only 34 seats, as opposed to 15 for Naftali Bennett’s list, which is swelled by support from the non-Orthodox

Ultra-Orthodox Knesset candidate gives secular voters his spiel

Bar-hopping rabbi talks to Tel Aviv revelers about his ‘live and let live’ philosophy, except for when it comes to gay Israelis

Likud-Beytenu alliance holds steady at top in latest poll

But gap between right-wing and center-left coalitions down to only six Knesset seats, according to Walla survey

Knesset gives okay for Kadima MKs to join Livni’s new party

Legislators to bring millions in public funding to former minister

One in 10 voters could reconsider their party of choice due to Likud’s rightward shift, poll predicts

Netanyahu’s party, and Israel’s right, still seems en route to comfortable victory in January’s election — even with Livni joining the race

‘Anglo’ Haredi activist will run for Knesset seat with Yair Lapid

US-born Rabbi Dov Lipman, an advocate for ultra-Orthodox integration, to be placed between 11th and 20th spot on Yesh Atid’s slate

Polls give Likud’s Kahlon 10-20 seats — but he’s undecided, wants to retain good ties with PM

Popular minister torn between a ‘time out’ and a run against Netanyahu

As he ponders breakaway, new poll gives 10 seats to outgoing Likud minister Kahlon

Earlier survey had predicted 20 seats for popular politician, torn between a ‘time out’ and a run against Netanyahu

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