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Topic: Central Elections Committee

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December 20, 2012
2:44 pm

MK Michael Ben Ari presents his party's election campaign slogan 'Because without duties there are no rights' (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Election committee rejects call to ban ultra-right party

Large majority allows hawkish Otzma Leyisrael to remain in the race

By Aaron Kalman

December 19, 2012
5:30 pm

Arab parliament member Hanin Zoabi holds a press conference in the Knesset on Wednesday (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASh90 )

Central Elections Committee bans Arab MK Hanin Zoabi from running in elections

Supreme Court likely to overturn decision; Zoabi charges that the panel violated the rights of an entire population

December 19, 2012
4:29 pm

Israel's main newspapers. (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Petition filed to stop publication of Maariv and Yedioth Ahronoth election polls

Media watchdog claims papers fail to provide proper background information in their surveys

By Gabe Fisher

December 19, 2012
2:03 pm

A Ramat Shlomo construction site, Tuesday, December 18 (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

The gifts that keep on giving

Israel is once again denounced for settlement plans, Liberman still faces a looming indictment and another media outlet announces cutbacks

By Ron Friedman

December 19, 2012
10:51 am

Hanin Zoabi (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Controversial Arab MK faces disqualification as Central Elections Committee convenes

Hanin Zoabi and her Balad party support armed struggle against Israel, petitioners argue; ultra-Orthodox parties challenged for fielding female-less slates; any ban could be overturned by Supreme Court

By Stuart Winer

December 10, 2012
3:27 pm

Arab MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem to plead for the return of her diplomatic passport, which was taken away due to her participation in the 2012 flotilla to Gaza (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Defensive positions

Soldiers attack their commanders’ orders to stand down, and one MK may have to fight in order to run for the Knesset

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 10, 2012
1:23 am

Elections committee likely to ban Arab MK from Knesset race

Final word on Hanin Zoabi’s disqualification rests with High Court of Justice, which historically has overturned similar decisions

By Yoel Goldman

December 6, 2012
10:01 pm

Ohad Shem Tov of the Pirate party wears a fake hook as he poses for a photograph outside the Israeli parliament. New political parties running for a spot in the upcoming Israeli elections arrived to an electoral committee inside the Israeli parliament, to claim a letter which will represent them in the January 2013 elections. December 05, 2012. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

With 34 party slates set, Pirates, potheads and protesters will jostle for votes with the big boys

As the registration deadline passes, the establishment and the eccentric no-hopers get ready to battle for seats in the Knesset

By Raphael Ahren

October 22, 2012
9:11 am

An Israeli women casting her vote at a Jerusalem polling station in the February 2009 general elections. (photo credit: Daniel Dreifuss/Flash90).

Budget for January’s election set at NIS 247 million

Sandwiches for volunteers to cost taxpayers more than a million shekels

By Asher Zeiger

July 3, 2012
6:32 pm

Mahmoud Abbas casts his ballot in the last elections to take place in the PA in 2006 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

In new blow to Palestinian unity, Hamas stops registering voters in Gaza

Move suspends progress toward elections; Islamists claim PA persecutes its members in the West Bank

By Elhanan Miller

May 27, 2012
6:54 pm

Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mashaal meet in Cairo, February 2012 (photo credit: Mohammed al-Hums/Flash 90)

Fatah and Hamas election officials to meet in Gaza Monday

Meeting marks progress toward a Palestinian unity government

By Michal Shmulovich and AP

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