January 30, 2015
3:40 am

The Knesset voting to dissolve itself on December 8, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy Knesset spokesperson)

After last-minute lineup tinkering, elections begin in earnest

Thursday’s deadline for submitting Knesset slates sparked fierce battle for the center, and shed light on the campaigns and their strategies

By Haviv Rettig Gur

January 28, 2015
10:31 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at a cornerstone laying ceremony for a new neighborhood in the southern Israeli town of Sderot. January 28, 2015. (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Why a war in the north could mean the fall of Netanyahu

Recent conflicts in Lebanon and Gaza ended inconclusively, to public dismay. A repeat during an election campaign could have decisive political consequences

By Haviv Rettig Gur

January 25, 2015
10:45 pm

Isaac Herzog leading a Labor Party meeting in the Knesset, December 1, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Herzog appears to publicly confirm Syria strike

Opposition head boasts he was ‘briefed on the operation,’ in apparent reference to bombing that killed Iranian general

By Times of Israel staff

January 23, 2015
9:26 pm

Current Zionist Camp leader Isaac Herzog, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2013 (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

New poll finds Likud, Zionist Camp neck and neck

Survey gives both parties 25 seats; Jewish Home stable at 16, new united Arab list to receive 12

By Times of Israel staff

January 21, 2015
2:29 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett during a Knesset plenum session, July 29, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Merged Likud-Jewish Home list would win 40 seats, poll finds

Running together, Netanyahu’s and Bennett’s parties would be the largest Knesset faction by far

By Stuart Winer

January 19, 2015
11:57 pm

Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog (center), Hatnua party leader Tzipi Livni (right) and the new 'defense candidate' on their joint Zionist Camp list, Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, during a press conference in Tel Aviv, January 19, 2015 (photo credit: Flash90)

Left’s new defense pick Yadlin: ‘Peace requires security’

In first interview as politician, ex-IDF intelligence head Amos Yadlin vows no compromises on security in future peace talks

By Times of Israel staff

January 18, 2015
8:29 pm

Ksenia Svetlova (photo credit: Facebook)

Russian journalist joins Zionist Camp list

Tzipi Livni adds Arab Affairs expert Ksenia Svetlova to lineup; ex-Hatnua MK Stern lashes out at Livni for ‘spurning’ him

By Ilan Ben Zion and Marissa Newman

January 18, 2015
12:21 pm

Yair Lapid (right) and new Yesh Atid recruit MK Elazar Stern at a press conference in Tel Aviv, on January 18, 2015. (Photo credit: Ben Kelmer/FLASH90)

Elazar Stern joins Lapid’s Yesh Atid party

MK left Hatnua party over its merger with Labor; Herzog’s overtures turned down by ex-army chief Gabi Ashkenazi

By Stuart Winer

January 14, 2015
8:00 am

Former Labor party leader Shelly Yachimovich on December 17, 2014 (Photo credit: Amir Levy/Flash90)

Women win big as Yachimovich, Shaffir top Labor primary vote

Former party leader will occupy third slot on Knesset slate after Isaac Herzog, Tzipi Livni; frontrunner Cabel shunted to disappointing 10th place

By Itamar Sharon

January 13, 2015
11:40 pm

Labor supporters wear red wigs to promote Labor MK Stav Shafir during the Labor Party primaries for the upcoming general elections on January 13, 2015 (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Labor primaries come to close with 59% turnout

Results due Wednesday morning; 9 of the top 25 seats on list are already reserved, including for Livni’s Hatnua members

By Marissa Newman and Adiv Sterman

January 13, 2015
6:19 pm

Labor Party chairman Isaac Herzog visits the party's primary headquarters in Holon, January 11, 2015. (Flash90)

For Labor, a primary focused on women, unity and victory

Even as the party soars in the polls, its 49,000 eligible voters make this its smallest primary in history

By Haviv Rettig Gur

January 13, 2015
8:17 am

Labor holds primaries to elect its Knesset slate

Nine of the top 25 seats on list are already reserved, including for Livni’s Hatnua members; results due Wednesday

By Marissa Newman

January 10, 2015
2:43 pm

Yair Lapid, January 1, 2015. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90)

Lapid urges French Jews to immigrate to Israel

Yesh Atid leader, son of a Holocaust survivor, says European Jewry must realize that the Jewish state is their only true home

By Times of Israel staff

December 31, 2014
3:09 pm

Hatnua party leader Tzipi Livni (left), Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog (center) and noted economics reformer Professor Manuel Trajtenberg at a press conference on December 31, 2014 announcing Trajtenberg's participation in the joint Labor-Hatnua list for the upcoming March 2015 Knesset elections. (photo credit: Amir Levy/Flash90)

Noted economics professor joins Labor-Hatnua

Manuel Trajtenberg to get 11th or 16th place, will likely serve as finance minister if party wins election

By Times of Israel staff

December 25, 2014
2:48 pm

MK Amram Mitzna (Hatnua) seen during a party meeting in the Israeli parliament, December 08, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Two more MKs abandon Livni’s Hatnua party

Amram Mitzna and Meir Sheetrit both leaving political life; faction now only has two Knesset members left

By Stuart Winer

Topic: Hatnua party

After last-minute lineup tinkering, elections begin in earnest

Thursday’s deadline for submitting Knesset slates sparked fierce battle for the center, and shed light on the campaigns and their strategies

Why a war in the north could mean the fall of Netanyahu

Recent conflicts in Lebanon and Gaza ended inconclusively, to public dismay. A repeat during an election campaign could have decisive political consequences

Herzog appears to publicly confirm Syria strike

Opposition head boasts he was ‘briefed on the operation,’ in apparent reference to bombing that killed Iranian general

New poll finds Likud, Zionist Camp neck and neck

Survey gives both parties 25 seats; Jewish Home stable at 16, new united Arab list to receive 12

Merged Likud-Jewish Home list would win 40 seats, poll finds

Running together, Netanyahu’s and Bennett’s parties would be the largest Knesset faction by far

Left’s new defense pick Yadlin: ‘Peace requires security’

In first interview as politician, ex-IDF intelligence head Amos Yadlin vows no compromises on security in future peace talks

Russian journalist joins Zionist Camp list

Tzipi Livni adds Arab Affairs expert Ksenia Svetlova to lineup; ex-Hatnua MK Stern lashes out at Livni for ‘spurning’ him

Elazar Stern joins Lapid’s Yesh Atid party

MK left Hatnua party over its merger with Labor; Herzog’s overtures turned down by ex-army chief Gabi Ashkenazi

Women win big as Yachimovich, Shaffir top Labor primary vote

Former party leader will occupy third slot on Knesset slate after Isaac Herzog, Tzipi Livni; frontrunner Cabel shunted to disappointing 10th place

Labor primaries come to close with 59% turnout

Results due Wednesday morning; 9 of the top 25 seats on list are already reserved, including for Livni’s Hatnua members

For Labor, a primary focused on women, unity and victory

Even as the party soars in the polls, its 49,000 eligible voters make this its smallest primary in history

Labor holds primaries to elect its Knesset slate

Nine of the top 25 seats on list are already reserved, including for Livni’s Hatnua members; results due Wednesday

Lapid urges French Jews to immigrate to Israel

Yesh Atid leader, son of a Holocaust survivor, says European Jewry must realize that the Jewish state is their only true home

Noted economics professor joins Labor-Hatnua

Manuel Trajtenberg to get 11th or 16th place, will likely serve as finance minister if party wins election

Two more MKs abandon Livni’s Hatnua party

Amram Mitzna and Meir Sheetrit both leaving political life; faction now only has two Knesset members left

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