The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/in-the-running/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:30:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png In the running | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/in-the-running/ 32 32 Vote for us: The profiles https://www.timesofisrael.com/vote-for-us-the-profiles/ Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:21:17 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=349304 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

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]]> Coexistence, despite everything https://www.timesofisrael.com/coexistence-despite-everything/ Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:21:42 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=343070 In the jungle of the Knesset, Hanna Swaid is an endangered species. The final installment in a six-part series of profiles ahead of the elections

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]]> The new face of Likud https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-new-face-of-likud-danny-danon/ Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:31:29 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=334988 Until now, Danny Danon was a marginal character from the extremist back benches. In the next Knesset, he will be at the heart of Israel's ruling party

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]]> Israel can’t afford to sit and do nothing, says Labor’s new defense man https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-cant-afford-to-sit-and-do-nothing-says-labors-top-defense-figure-who-knows-the-pm-well-but-has-few-kind-words-for-him/ Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:07:05 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=328710 Omer Barlev -- son of a former chief of staff, the ex-commander of one of the army's most elite units and a hi-tech entrepreneur -- knew Benjamin Netanyahu as a soldier. He has few kind words for him today

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]]> The new (secular) face of religious Zionism https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-new-secular-face-of-religious-zionism/ Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:55:14 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=322970 Ayelet Shaked wants to bring the ideology of the settlements from the West Bank into the Israeli mainstream. With her Jewish Home party surging in the polls, she might do just that

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]]> Uniform off, an outspoken general takes on the political system https://www.timesofisrael.com/uniform-off-an-outspoken-general-takes-on-the-political-system/ Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:11:26 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=315348 Elazar Stern brings his unique brand of blunt, Orthodox, centrist Zionism from the military to the 2013 election

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]]> A party of one https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-party-of-one/ Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:53:45 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=301764 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

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