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Topic: Haim Amsalem

February 19, 2013
1:10 pm

The rabbi and the rock: Dov Lipman in his Knesset office (photo credit: Courtesy)

Dov Lipman’s rock solid struggle for a better Israel

The first US-born MK in 30 years discusses his improbable rise, and the endemic corruption in Israeli politics he and his newly empowered party insist they’ll tackle

By Raphael Ahren and David Horovitz

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 23, 2013
2:49 pm

Happy chaos: Supporters of the Jewish Home party respond to the preliminary results of the elections in Tel Aviv on January 22, 2013 (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90)

Israel’s elections: What just happened?

Israel voted for change, and moved a little from right to center; Lapid is the big success but Netanyahu is still a winner, albeit battered and constrained

By David Horovitz

January 22, 2013
10:21 am

Former Shas MK Haim Amsalem, now running at the head of his own party, Am Shalem, in the Knesset in 2010. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Vote for us: The profiles

In the final weeks of the campaign, The Times of Israel’s Matti Friedman interviewed and profiled six very different Knesset candidates. As voters choose their parties, here’s his reminder of some of the more compelling prospective MKs

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 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 28, 2012
6:16 am

Students affiliated with the Labor Party try to recruit supporters at The Hebrew University (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Election frenzy hits Israeli university campuses

Politicians and activists — from the left, right and center — look at students as future leaders and potential political power shifters

By Aaron Kalman

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 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

December 4, 2012
3:53 pm

Haim Amsalem in Jerusalem, October 23, 2012 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

A party of one

Renegade rabbi and politician Haim Amsalem, expelled from Shas for taking on the sacred cows of ultra-Orthodox politics, thinks Israel could learn a thing or two from his father’s Judaism

By Matti Friedman

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 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

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