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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 23, 2013

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset at the opening of its winter session in October 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Let the arithmetic begin

By Raphael Ahren

Heading a faction with a meager 31 seats, Netanyahu still has a range of coalition options — but he’s a lot weaker than he’d want to be, and Lapid has plenty of leverage

Israeli elections, Tuesday-Wednesday LIVEBLOG (now closed)Lapid soars, blocs tied at 60-60, but Netanyahu in driver’s seat

By Ilan Ben Zion and Yoel Goldman

Post-election breakdownHow Israelis voted — from Jerusalem to Tayibe to Efrat

By Stuart Winer

Who made the cut?

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)

Analysis10 quickfire pointers

Israel’s elections: What just happened?

By David Horovitz

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

The end is nigh!

Just kidding: the day after elections things are pretty much the same

Left wing, right wing, wrong wing

Snapshots of voters, their votes and what on earth they were thinking

Meir Javedanfar

Because I refuse to live in fear

That’s why I voted for a left-wing party

Yair Lapid, chairman of the Yesh Atid party, speaks to supporters after the preliminary results of the elections on January 22, 2013. (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash 90)

At Yesh Atid, delight, shock and talk of national responsibility

By Michal Shmulovich

Putative incoming MKs from Yair Lapid’s new centrist party — including US-born Dov Lipman — hail a mandate for unity and social justice

Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid, center with tie, surrounded by his fellow party members after announcing their list for the upcoming Knesset elections, December 2, 2012. (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

All the kingmaker’s men, and women

The reduced ranks of Likud supporters react to the TV exit polls, January 22, 2013. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Likud activists find cold comfort in fact that Netanyahu’s still set to be PM

By Raphael Ahren

Preparations for a grand election victory give way to mounting dismay, confirmed by poor exit poll results

Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett electrifies supporters at Kfar Hamaccabiah on January 22, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Bennett energizes disheartened disciples, prepares for long road

By Mitch Ginsburg

Jewish Home activists were expecting more, but party leader insists the mission to inject religious content into Zionism is making heady progress

Kadima's website: not a winner (Photo credit: Courtesy)

You snooze you lose

The (Knesset) race goes to the speedy

By David Shamah

The curious correlation between how long it takes for a party’s website to load and how well that party did in Tuesday’s election

Ofer Engel casts his ballot on behalf of Nablus resident Alma Irshaid, January 22 (photo credit: Courtesy Ofer Engel)

In act of rebellion, Israelis give Palestinians their votes

By Elhanan Miller

Ofer Engel knows it won’t change much, but he would like to send the message that Israel is not a democracy

A member of the Jordanian Independent Electoral Commission carries a polling box to be distributed to the polling stations, one day before the designated date of the Jordanian parliamentary elections, in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Jordanians head to the polls

By Jamal Halaby

Process of democratization will see king hand over many powers to the government

Professional dancer Georges Exantus performs in a show in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Sunday, Jan. 20 (photo credit: AP/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Israeli doc helps Haitian amputee get groove back

By Trenton Daniel

Georges Exantus underwent surgery in Israel after he lost his leg in the 2000 earthquake; today he’s boogying on the dance floor

New York's iconic Brooklyn Bridge (CC BY-Buggolo via Flickr.com)

Fashion reporter sizes up Brooklyn’s Hasidim

By Chavie Lieber

More Headlines

Hamas and Fatah to resume unity drive next week

By Elhanan Miller

Yair Lapid and Benjamin Netanyahu (composite of two campaign photos)

Hebrew media reviewShock and awe: The election results are in

By Ilan Ben Zion

Bedouin women near a billboard featuring MK Taleb Sana in the city of Rahat, Sunday, January 20, 2013 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Arabic media reviewFor Arabs, election results mean more of the same

By Elhanan Miller

Yair Lapid, chairman of the Yesh Atid party, outside his home on January 22 (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash 90)

International media reviewWorld ponders a winner who lost and an absent slide rightwards

By Raphael Ahren

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