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Left, Benny Gantz, center, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, Yair Lapid. (Hadas Parush, Noam Revkin Fenton, Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Raoul Wootliff
Analysis
Raoul Wootliff
After a decade of Netanyahu, Israel finally has a real election contest
In uniting, Gantz and Lapid have potentially upended years of political predictability. With their move, for the first time in years, the prime minister has a fight on his hands
David Horovitz
AnalysisGantz-Lapid alliance is a major shake-up, not yet a political revolution
By David Horovitz
Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid of the newly formed Blue and White party give a joint a statement to the press in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
Gantz, Lapid at joint party launch: ‘Today we are changing the face of Israel’
By TOI staff
Raoul Wootliff
Campaign notebookArab, religious parties last of record-high 47 slates to register for elections
By Raoul Wootliff
Illustrative photo of a man receiving a vaccine in Safed in northern Israel, November 6, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)
February 22, 2019, 5:23 pm
Court orders 12-year-old to be vaccinated for measles despite father’s refusal
Amid resurgence of disease, Tel Aviv judge accepts mother’s petition, likens avoiding inoculation to crossing the road with eyes covered and hoping not to be hit by a car
By TOI staff
Runners at the start of the Tel Aviv Marathon, February 22, 2019. (Tel Aviv Municipality/YouTube)
February 22, 2019, 11:28 am
40,000 runners take to the streets of Tel Aviv for annual marathon
Ethiopian runner Samuel Getachew Demi wins 26-mile race while Kenya’s Margaret Wangui Njuguna is first woman; record-breaking number of participants from abroad take part
By TOI staff
Tzomet party head MK Oren Hazan takes a selfie as he present his party list at the Central Elections Committee, on February 21, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 22, 2019, 2:21 am
Arab, religious parties last of record-high 47 slates to register for elections
Procession of candidates come before Central Elections Committee amid flurry of last-minute mergers and splits; Pirate party will recommend ‘the internet’ as Israel’s next PM
By Raoul Wootliff
Mossi Raz speaking to an audience in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019; at right is Times of Israel's Miriam Herschlag. (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)
February 22, 2019, 12:13 am
Meretz MK condemns Israeli right for politics of ‘hatred’
Mossi Raz says he is confident left-wing party will maintain its share of Knesset seats, says Israel’s ‘liberal way of life’ is in danger
By Simona Weinglass
MKs Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi react after submitting a joint list of candidates from their Hadash and Ta'al parties to the Central Elections Committee at the Knesset on February 21, 2019. (Hadash)
February 21, 2019, 11:56 pm
Arab parties officially running on two tickets: Hadash-Ta’al and Ra’am-Balad
Thursday’s registration of new rosters with election committee sees the Joint (Arab) List split into two separate alliances
By TOI staff
Labor chairman Avi Gabbay (L) welcoming former IDF Southern Command chief Tal Russo to the party, February 21, 2019. (Ra'anan Cohen)
February 21, 2019, 11:52 pm
Labor’s new No. 2, ex-general Tal Russo, won’t say whether he supports 2 states
Former southern chief stays mum when confronted by reporters, as party submits its Knesset slate to Central Elections Committee
By Raoul Wootliff
Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben Dahan speaks during a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on January 19, 2017.(Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 21, 2019, 11:15 pm
Likud joins with defunct party to sidestep legal challenges to Jewish Home deal
Jewish Home MK Eli Ben Dahan, now technically a member of expired platform Achi, will temporarily run with Likud before rejoining his own party after elections
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a televised statement after a meeting of his ruling Likud party in Ramat Gan on February 21, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
February 21, 2019, 9:46 pm
Netanyahu urges Israelis: Don’t elect weak, incompetent leftists Gantz and Lapid
As polls show Blue and White alliance poses growing threat to his re-election, PM claims his rivals would establish a Palestinian state, endangering Israel’s very existence
By TOI staff
Head of the Gesher Political party MK Orly Levy Abekasis at the Central Elections Committee, where political parties running for a spot in the upcoming Israeli elections, arrive to present their slates, Tel Aviv, February 21, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 21, 2019, 9:30 pm
Blue and White, Gesher, Kulanu file party slates hours before deadline
Parties register candidate lists to Central Elections Committee amid a flurry of mergers and talks of possible alliances still in the works
By Raoul Wootliff
From left to right: Blue and White party leaders Moshe Ya'alon, Benny Gantz , Yair Lapid and Gabi Ashkenazi pose for a picture after announcing their new electoral alliance in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)
February 21, 2019, 8:53 pm
Polls give new Gantz-Lapid faction meaningful lead over Netanyahu’s Likud
But TV surveys indicate Blue and White would struggle to form a governing coalition, despite emerging from elections as largest party
By TOI staff
Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid of the newly formed Blue and White party give a joint a statement to the press in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
February 21, 2019, 8:33 pm
Gantz, Lapid at joint party launch: ‘Today we are changing the face of Israel’
Vowing to replace ‘divisive’ PM at first event of Blue and White alliance, ex-army chief reveals his mother, Yesh Atid chief’s father lived in same apartment building in Budapest
By TOI staff
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a gathering of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, in Jerusalem on February 18, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
February 21, 2019, 6:47 pm
PM’s plan to run Jewish Home candidate on Likud slate faces legal appeals
MK Eli Ben Dahan named as the cross-over political candidate; petitioners say running one party’s lawmaker on another party’s ticket is a form of election fraud
By TOI staff
Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid embrace after deciding to forge an alliance for the upcoming election, February 21, 2019. (Courtesy/Facebook)
February 21, 2019, 6:25 pm
Gantz-Lapid alliance is a major shake-up, not yet a political revolution
Three ex-IDF chiefs are now lined up against Netanyahu. Branding his rivals as weak leftists is going to be harder. But we’ve yet to see votes moving away from the right
By David Horovitz
Police question a 15-year-old boy who helped his brother, 5, drive their parents' car. (Israel Police)
February 21, 2019, 5:54 pm
Police pull over car, find 5-year-old at the wheel
Officers discover pint-sized driver sitting on his 15-year-old brother’s lap, with teen saying he wanted to teach the child how to drive
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis during a joint press conference at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on February 19, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/pool/Flash90)
February 21, 2019, 5:17 pm
Netanyahu said scrambling to unite right, ahead of address to media
With evening deadline for finalizing Knesset slates fast approaching, PM reportedly holding talks on efforts to increase bloc’s electoral power; Kulanu announces it will run alone
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
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