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Topic: Otzma Leyisrael party

January 27, 2013
8:41 pm

Michael Ben Ari introduces his campaign slogan 'There are no rights without duties' at a press conference in Jerusalem, November 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Arab town doesn’t love anti-Arab party

Count showing 109 votes in Jisr a-Zarka given to extreme right Otzma Leyisrael was a mistake

By Aaron Kalman

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
4:22 pm

The official count of Israeli votes, as of Thursday afternoon (photo credit: screen capture Government election's site)

The numbers behind the results

Netanyahu won less than a quarter of the popular vote; final turnout 67.52%; over 250,000 envelopes went to waste

By Aaron Kalman

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
2:49 pm

Happy chaos: Supporters of the Jewish Home party respond to the preliminary results of the elections in Tel Aviv on January 22, 2013 (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90)

Israel’s elections: What just happened?

Israel voted for change, and moved a little from right to center; Lapid is the big success but Netanyahu is still a winner, albeit battered and constrained

By David Horovitz

January 22, 2013
6:48 pm

Four years ago: Then prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Shimon Peres to discuss forming a governing coalition, March 20, 2009 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash 90)

Netanyahu’s headaches may only just be beginning

If Israeli politics snap back to the pre-2000 balance, President Peres just might have significant influence over who forms the next coalition

By Haviv Rettig Gur

January 22, 2013
12:59 pm

Otzma Leyisrael #2 Michael Ben Ari attends a soccer game between Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Tel Aviv on Monday evening, the day before Israeli elections. (photo credit: Roy Alima/Flash90)

Right-wing parties trade allegations of dirty deeds

Members of Otzma Leyisrael accuse Jewish Home party activists of removing voting slips from station in Yad Binyamin

By Asher Zeiger

January 18, 2013
7:39 am

A man hangs a huge poster with an image of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overlooking the Ayalon freeway in Tel Aviv on Thursday (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Final newspaper polls give right wing narrowest lead of race

Four days before elections, support for Likud-Beytenu is lower than ever; 15% of voters remain undecided

By Ron Friedman and Yoel Goldman

January 17, 2013
12:27 pm

Sheets of newly printed ballots seen at a printing house in Jerusalem, January 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Near-final polls disagree on size of Likud, right

With less than a week before vote, right-wing bloc predicted to win as many as 72 seats and as few as 65

By Gabe Fisher and Aaron Kalman

January 16, 2013
10:31 pm

A worker prepares ballot boxes for the upcoming Israeli election, at a warehouse in Shoham, near Tel Aviv, January 8, 2013. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

New poll shows Likud-Beytenu continuing to slide

Channel 10 survey has ruling party slipping to 32 seats, Labor receiving 16, Jewish Home 14, and 11 seats each for Shas and Yesh Atid

By Adiv Sterman

January 16, 2013
12:19 am

Part of Balad's campaign, showing right wing politicians singing the Israeli national anthem in an 'Arab' tune (photo capture: screen capture Youtube)

High court overturns decision to ban election ads

Far-left Balad, far-right Otzma Leyisrael can run full versions of their commercials; Jewish Home party fined for violations

By Aaron Kalman

January 15, 2013
5:28 pm

Right-wing protesters, including Itamar Ben Gvir (in blue), march through Jaffa on March 2, 2011. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Right-wing march in Arab town passes without incident

Otzma Leyisrael party leaders have made Arab Israelis a fixture of their Knesset campaign

By Gabe Fisher

January 14, 2013
10:58 am

Why I’m voting for Otzma Leyisrael

It’s the only party that has upheld the principle that the land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel

By Tamir Druz

January 14, 2013
1:22 am

Itamar Ben Gvir, in blue, and Baruch Marzel, with beard, marching through Jaffa in 2011. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Police brace for right-wing march in Arab town

Otzma Leyisrael party leaders making Arab Israelis the target of their Knesset campaign

By Joshua Davidovich

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