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Topic: Likud primaries

March 18, 2013
1:53 pm

Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman holds a press conference at the Knesset on Monday. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman vows to block any settlement freeze

Yisrael Beytenu head also says his party won’t splinter from Netanyahu’s Likud — for now

By Times of Israel staff

March 18, 2013
6:39 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)

Benjamin Netanyahu, large and in charge

Pundits suggest PM is weaker and more hawkish than in the past, but a closer look shows an unassailable leader who preserved some space for political maneuvering

By Haviv Rettig Gur

March 17, 2013
10:28 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After losing seats, it’s splitsville for Likud-Beytenu

Following elections that saw both parties reduced in size, Benjamin Netanyahu to pry his party from Yisrael Beytenu, and hopes to do away with primaries as well, reports say

By Aaron Kalman

February 27, 2013
6:02 am

Discarded campaign flyers rest in a trash can following the Likud party primaries on Nov 25, 2012 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Likud MK may be implicated in cash-for-votes scandal

Jewish Home activist says he employed the same system he used to boost Slomiansky with a member of the ruling party

By Ron Friedman

January 17, 2013
10:24 am

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Likud said to enlist Jewish law to sway settlers

Party reportedly contacts right-wing rabbis in effort to garner ruling against Likud members who vote for competing slates

By Aaron Kalman

November 27, 2012
6:05 pm

A Likud voter at a computerized voting station (photo credit: Gideon Markowitcz/Flash90)

After Likud primary snags, Labor to skip electronic balloting

Computer system used by Likud to be replaced with old-fashioned pen and paper

By Aaron Kalman

November 27, 2012
3:19 pm

A Likud supporter outside the Kfar Saba Likud polling place on Nov 26, 2012. (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

The right stuff

Likud’s nationalists are sent skyward, scuttling Netanyahu’s moderate turn, while Ehud Barak realizes his political days are over and flies the coop

By Joshua Davidovich

November 27, 2012
11:22 am

Right-wing politician Moshe Feiglin waves after the release of party primary election results on Monday, November 26 (photo credit: Flash90)

One in 10 voters could reconsider their party of choice due to Likud’s rightward shift, poll predicts

Netanyahu’s party, and Israel’s right, still seems en route to comfortable victory in January’s election — even with Livni joining the race

By Ron Friedman

November 27, 2012
2:08 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud Minister Dan Meridor at a party meeting in the Knesset in September 2011. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud primaries: The final result

Who came in where in the Sunday-Monday vote

By Raphael Ahren

November 26, 2012
11:21 pm

Moshe Feiglin (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Likud primary results show dramatic rightward shift in party hierarchy

Ultra-nationalist Moshe Feiglin takes 15th place in vote for Knesset slate; perceived moderates Meridor, Begin and Dichter outside top 20

By Ilan Ben Zion

November 26, 2012
11:04 am

Did his vote count? Prime MInister Netanyahu at a Likud party polling place on Sunday. The party's primary was marred by computer failures and long lines (photo credit: Gil Yohanan/POOL/FLASH90)

Primary failures

The Likud primary goes off with quite a few hitches; David’s Sling downs its target; and Meir Dagan gets a visitor

By Yossi Nachemi

November 26, 2012
9:12 am

Likud supporters waiting to vote in their primary election, in Jerusalem on Sunday, November 25, 2012 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud reopens poll after ballot box bungle

Sunday voting was marred by technical glitches in what one MK called ‘a farce’; stations to remain open Monday until 9 p.m.

By Philip Podolsky and Gabe Fisher

November 25, 2012
5:30 pm

Minister of Education Gideon Sa'ar tries to cast his vote as Likud opened the polls for its primary elections on Sunday (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Likud panel extends primaries after computer snafus snarl voting

Ballot boxes to stay open from 11 a.m to 9 p.m. Monday after polling stations report problems

By Philip Podolsky

November 25, 2012
3:29 pm

A Likud supporter carries a poster of far-right party member Moshe Feiglin (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Moderate Likud veterans may be on their way out as party’s young right flank set for gains

Moshe Feiglin said to have a shot at a realistic Knesset spot, but Netanyahu may seek to torpedo his candidacy — as he has done in the past

By Raphael Ahren

November 25, 2012
2:22 pm

A Likud member arrives to vote in the party's primary elections at a Jerusalem polling station on Nov 25 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Caveat voter

The region turns from trading rockets to planning, and regretting, elections

By Joshua Davidovich

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