February 5, 2013
3:50 pm

The Knesset plenum (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

The 120 members of the 19th Knesset

Israel’s MKs, arranged by party

By Times of Israel staff

February 5, 2013
1:56 pm

Dear incoming MKs, could you be for real?

With a stable of fresh Knesset members, and coalition talks going into high gear, change finally seems possible

By Marc Schulman

February 4, 2013
11:56 pm

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid (left) and Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett at a conference in Ramat Gan, December 17, 2012 (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Coalition talks heat up as Netanyahu slams Lapid, woos Livni

Jewish Home leader says he ‘won’t betray’ Yesh Atid chief in political battle to draft ultra-Orthodox Israelis

By Asher Zeiger

February 3, 2013
6:28 am

Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Shimon Peres, leaving a ceremony Saturday night. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud-Beytenu opening coalition talks with biggest fish: Lapid

Netanyahu’s faction to kick off negotiations hours after PM pledges to form as wide a government as possible

By Joshua Davidovich

February 2, 2013
9:09 pm

Shaul Mofaz at a Jerusalem press conference in January 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Mofaz: We will support Netanyahu

Kadima leader, who zigzagged between coalition and opposition, pledges to respect the people’s choice, cooperate with Lapid

By Yifa Yaakov

January 30, 2013
6:27 am

President Shimon Peres will meet with party leaders on Wednesday and Thursday before determining who to task with forming the coalition (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Peres to start talks with party leaders before handing over coalition keys

With 82 MKs in his camp, Netanyahu assured to get presidential nod to form government; negotiations to begin officially on Friday

By Ron Friedman

January 26, 2013
5:15 am

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid leaves his home for a pre-elections workout on Tuesday, Jan. 22 (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

Rising political star better be ready to work up a sweat

If Yair Lapid wants to avoid the pitfalls of his centrist predecessors, he’ll have to produce concrete results at the Knesset

By Daniel Estrin

January 26, 2013
3:19 am

Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid poses with female members of his new political movement in November. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Next Knesset to receive boost in female power

Record 27 women win seats in elections, nearly a quarter of new legislature

By Yifa Yaakov and Ron Friedman

January 24, 2013
9:43 pm

Kadima head Shaul Mofaz presents the party's election campaign slogan, 'Bibi will get us in trouble,' in November (photo credit: Flash90)

Mofaz urges Netanyahu to form a centrist coalition

Kadima chair celebrates a narrow, last-minute entry into the Knesset

By Philip Podolsky

January 24, 2013
4:26 pm

Judge Elyakim Rubinstein, head of the Central Election Committee, tallying votes in Jerusalem on Tuesday. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Final vote tally gives Kadima reprieve, Jewish Home a 12th seat

Arab party Ra’am-Ta’al drops to four seats as last ballots counted, shifting balance of blocs 61-59 in favor of right wing

By Joshua Davidovich

January 24, 2013
1:41 pm

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid speaks to reporters after results revealed him to be the big winner of the elections on Tuesday, Jan. 22 (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

The numbers game

The press puts Lapid in the driver’s seat even before final election results are out

By Ron Friedman

January 23, 2013
11:42 pm

Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz and his wife arrive at a polling station in Kohav Yair to cast their votes on Tuesday, January 22 (photo credit: Flash90)

Kadima wins reprieve, Jewish Home takes 12th spot as vote count ends

United Arab List expected to drop to four seats as last election slips from soldiers, prisoners, hospital patients and diplomats tallied

By Joshua Davidovich

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
9:51 am

Who made the cut?

A complete list of all the presumptive Knesset-bound candidates

By Times of Israel staff

January 23, 2013
2:51 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset at the opening of its winter session in October 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM’s faction slides, biggest party crashes, and yet Israel’s shift isn’t so vast

New priorities, new faces, new parties, but no radical switch across the right-left spectrum

By Uriel Heilman

Topic: Kadima party

The 120 members of the 19th Knesset

Israel’s MKs, arranged by party

Dear incoming MKs, could you be for real?

With a stable of fresh Knesset members, and coalition talks going into high gear, change finally seems possible

Coalition talks heat up as Netanyahu slams Lapid, woos Livni

Jewish Home leader says he ‘won’t betray’ Yesh Atid chief in political battle to draft ultra-Orthodox Israelis

Likud-Beytenu opening coalition talks with biggest fish: Lapid

Netanyahu’s faction to kick off negotiations hours after PM pledges to form as wide a government as possible

Mofaz: We will support Netanyahu

Kadima leader, who zigzagged between coalition and opposition, pledges to respect the people’s choice, cooperate with Lapid

Peres to start talks with party leaders before handing over coalition keys

With 82 MKs in his camp, Netanyahu assured to get presidential nod to form government; negotiations to begin officially on Friday

Rising political star better be ready to work up a sweat

If Yair Lapid wants to avoid the pitfalls of his centrist predecessors, he’ll have to produce concrete results at the Knesset

Next Knesset to receive boost in female power

Record 27 women win seats in elections, nearly a quarter of new legislature

Mofaz urges Netanyahu to form a centrist coalition

Kadima chair celebrates a narrow, last-minute entry into the Knesset

Final vote tally gives Kadima reprieve, Jewish Home a 12th seat

Arab party Ra’am-Ta’al drops to four seats as last ballots counted, shifting balance of blocs 61-59 in favor of right wing

The numbers game

The press puts Lapid in the driver’s seat even before final election results are out

Kadima wins reprieve, Jewish Home takes 12th spot as vote count ends

United Arab List expected to drop to four seats as last election slips from soldiers, prisoners, hospital patients and diplomats tallied

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

Who made the cut?

A complete list of all the presumptive Knesset-bound candidates

PM’s faction slides, biggest party crashes, and yet Israel’s shift isn’t so vast

New priorities, new faces, new parties, but no radical switch across the right-left spectrum

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