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Kadima party
The Knesset plenum (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 5, 2013, 3:50 pm
The 120 members of the 19th Knesset
Israel's MKs, arranged by party
By TOI 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
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)
February 4, 2013, 11:56 pm
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
Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Shimon Peres, leaving a ceremony Saturday night. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 3, 2013, 6:28 am
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
Shaul Mofaz at a Jerusalem press conference in January 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)
February 2, 2013, 9:09 pm
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
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)
January 30, 2013, 6:27 am
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
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid leaves his home for a pre-elections workout on Tuesday, Jan. 22 (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)
January 26, 2013, 5:15 am
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
Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid poses with female members of his new political movement in November. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
January 26, 2013, 3:19 am
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
Kadima head Shaul Mofaz presents the party's election campaign slogan, 'Bibi will get us in trouble,' in November (photo credit: Flash90)
January 24, 2013, 9:43 pm
Mofaz urges Netanyahu to form a centrist coalition
Kadima chair celebrates a narrow, last-minute entry into the Knesset
By Philip Podolsky
Judge Elyakim Rubinstein, head of the Central Election Committee, tallying votes in Jerusalem on Tuesday. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 24, 2013, 4:26 pm
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
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)
January 24, 2013, 1:41 pm
The numbers game
The press puts Lapid in the driver's seat even before final election results are out
By Ron Friedman
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)
January 23, 2013, 11:42 pm
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
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)
January 23, 2013, 5:16 pm
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
The Knesset plenum (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 23, 2013, 9:51 am
Who made the cut?
A complete list of all the presumptive Knesset-bound candidates
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset at the opening of its winter session in October 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 23, 2013, 2:51 am
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
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