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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 571

Am Shalem party

The official count of Israeli votes, as of Thursday afternoon (photo credit: screen capture Government election's site)
January 24, 2013, 4:22 pm
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
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)
January 23, 2013, 5:16 pm
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
A man walks by a poster depicting Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett, at an election conference in Jerusalem on December 23, 2012. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 20, 2013, 4:07 pm
And Naftali Bennett wins… on Wikipedia
Ascendant right-wing leader receives far more views on his Hebrew-language page than any of his rivals — including Netanyahu
By Gabe Fisher
Elya Tzur
January 17, 2013, 5:15 pm
Elya Tzur
Elections and the Jewish question: it’s Amsalem for me
He symbolizes a return to Utopian Zionism, aspiring to merge the national with the universal
Sheets of newly printed ballots seen at a printing house in Jerusalem, January 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 17, 2013, 12:27 pm
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
A worker prepares ballot boxes for the previous elections, at a warehouse in Shoham, near Tel Aviv, January 8, 2013 (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
January 16, 2013, 10:31 pm
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
Counting remaining ballots from soldiers and absentees at the Knesset in Jerusalem after the 2009 elections (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 13, 2013, 10:47 am
Who would Maimonides vote for?
Your cut-out-and-keep guide (okay, your bookmark and reopen guide) to the runners and riders (sorry, parties and politicians) who’ll be running our lives
By Raphael Ahren
The empty plenum hall of the Knesset in 2011 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 1, 2013, 10:28 am
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
MK Rabbi Haim Amsalem, founder of the political Am Shalem movement, with which he is running in the upcoming Israeli elections, meets with Israelis in Tel Aviv as part of his campaign tour, December 12, 2012. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
December 14, 2012, 5:45 am
Ultra-Orthodox Knesset candidate gives secular voters his spiel
Bar-hopping rabbi talks to Tel Aviv revelers about his ‘live and let live’ philosophy, except for when it comes to gay Israelis
By Stuart Winer and Yoel Goldman
December 11, 2012, 11:23 am
Likud-Beytenu alliance holds steady at top in latest poll
But gap between right-wing and center-left coalitions down to only six Knesset seats, according to Walla survey
By Gabe Fisher
Haim Amsalem in Jerusalem, October 23, 2012 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 4, 2012, 3:53 pm
A party of one
Renegade rabbi and politician Haim Amsalem, expelled from Shas for taking on the sacred cows of ultra-Orthodox politics, thinks Israel could learn a thing or two from his father’s Judaism
By Matti Friedman
Yisrael Hasson objects to his fellow legislators' planned break off from Kadima and joining of Tzipi Livni's Hatnua, Monday (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 3, 2012, 10:54 pm
Knesset gives okay for Kadima MKs to join Livni’s new party
Legislators to bring millions in public funding to former minister
By Aaron Kalman
Right-wing politician Moshe Feiglin waves after the release of party primary election results on Monday, November 26 (photo credit: Flash90)
November 27, 2012, 11:22 am
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
Dov Lipman, right, and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid (photo credit: Yaakov Lederman)
November 25, 2012, 1:29 am
‘Anglo’ Haredi activist will run for Knesset seat with Yair Lapid
US-born Rabbi Dov Lipman, an advocate for ultra-Orthodox integration, to be placed between 11th and 20th spot on Yesh Atid’s slate
By Elie Leshem
Minister of Communications Moshe Kahlon, in the Knesset in August. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/FLASH90)
November 1, 2012, 8:34 pm
Polls give Likud’s Kahlon 10-20 seats — but he’s undecided, wants to retain good ties with PM
Popular minister torn between a ‘time out’ and a run against Netanyahu
By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff
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