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January 12, 2013
5:32 am

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians take part in a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement, in Gaza City on January 4 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel’s left draws on demographic doomsday in effort to mobilize voters

Threat of binational state may not be enough to lure disillusioned public back to land-for-peace formula

By Dan Perry

January 12, 2013
2:32 am

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv on December 9 (photo credit: Yossi Zelger/Flash90)

Olmert accuses PM of wasting billions on ‘harebrained adventures’

Former prime minister says Netanyahu spent NIS 11 billion on Iran-related defense projects that ‘won’t come to fruition’

By Ron Friedman

January 9, 2013
2:36 am

"What? You're not Jewish?" "I am now!" Shas plays the ethnic card in an election ad (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Election ads: The vague, the dishonest, and the crazy

In Tuesday’s first batch of TV campaign commercials, Jewish Home kept its less palatable faces hidden, Livni briefly dared mention ‘peace,’ Shas dismally played the ethnic card, and we learned that Yachimovich labels the containers in her fridge

By Matti Friedman

January 7, 2013
4:20 pm

Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett (photo credit: Flash90)

Netanyahu planning a left-leaning alliance, Jewish Home party leader charges

Hatnua head Livni cautions other center-left parties not to enter Likud-led coalition alone

By Asher Zeiger

January 5, 2013
4:33 pm

Yair Lapid speaks at Hebrew University, in December 2012 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud scorns, Kadima praises center-left unification attempt

Yair Lapid says the parties would do better to join Netanyahu to keep ultra-Orthodox, far-right out of government

By Ilan Ben Zion and Yifa Yaakov

January 1, 2013
9:33 pm

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (photo credit: Yossi Zelger/Flash90/File)

Major party leaders are all lousy, Olmert moans

Former prime minister wallops politicians left, right and center, says Netanyahu is afraid to make hard decisions

By Aaron Kalman

January 1, 2013
10:28 am

The empty plenum hall of the Knesset in 2011 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud-Beytenu continues to bleed votes to Jewish Home, new poll finds

Ruling party projected to receive only 34 seats, as opposed to 15 for Naftali Bennett’s list, which is swelled by support from the non-Orthodox

By Gabe Fisher

December 29, 2012
3:27 pm

Hatnuah party leader Tzipi Livni speaks at a conference on December 18. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Livni lashes out at Jewish Home for settlers’ clashes with IDF at West Bank outpost

Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz also blasts extremists’ influence over right-wing candidates, saying they increase the motivation to use violence against the army

By Michal Shmulovich

December 27, 2012
9:26 pm

A Palestinian youth hurls a Molotov cocktail at IDF soldiers near Bethlehem in 2000 (Illustrative photo: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Explosive device hurled at soldiers as low-level violence erupts in several West Bank hot-spots

Former defense chief Shaul Mofaz warns Israel might soon be facing third intifada

By Adiv Sterman

December 19, 2012
12:11 pm

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak in 2011 (photo credit: Meir Partush/Flash90)

Former IDF chief Amnon Lipkin-Shahak dies in Jerusalem, aged 68

Politicians mourn passing of ‘rare amalgam of military and diplomatic courage,’ praise his contribution to Israel’s security and efforts to advance peace

By Mitch Ginsburg and Elie Leshem

December 14, 2012
3:19 pm

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks to party members in Tel Aviv on Thursday, December 13. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Hot water for Yisrael Beytenu’s head honcho

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman gets served an indictment, but that doesn’t put his election prospects on ice

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 12, 2012
10:29 am

Yair Lapid on Monday, December 10. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yesh Atid sets out to prove it’s more politics than personality

Buffeted with claims that the party stands for nothing, or all the wrong things, Yair Lapid and his clutch of fresh-faced comrades aim for supremacy in the battle for the center

By Joshua Davidovich

December 8, 2012
8:51 pm

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks at the Ono Academic college on August 12, 2012. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Olmert: Livni and Mofaz are both ‘deserving’ of the post of prime minister

Former PM explains why he chose not make comeback, calls current Israeli leadership ‘extreme right-wing, garrulous and confrontational’

December 5, 2012
7:35 pm

Kadima faction chair Dalia Itzik speaking to media in July 2012 (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

MKs Itzik and Bar-On quit politics as their collapsing Kadima party trots out lackluster Knesset list

Resignations follow mass exodus of top guns from outgoing parliament’s biggest faction to Tzipi Livni’s new Hatnua