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Zehut party number two Rabbi Haim Amsalem speaking to potential voters in Safed, March 9, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)
March 17, 2019, 1:39 pm
Ex-Shas MK, economist, anti-vaxxer: Who’s on Feiglin’s pro-cannabis Zehut list?
Array of candidates are united not by support of marijuana legalization but by a rejection of mainstream opinions and an embrace of issues on the political fringes
By Raoul Wootliff
Zehut chairman Moshe Feiglin speaks during a demonstration held following the murder of 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher, in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, February 9, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 10, 2019, 7:16 pm
Pot legalization meets Jewish nationalism: Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut is no joke
Firebrand right-wing leader is riding a wave of support from voters high on his pro-cannabis platform. But they may get a hit of something very different
By Raoul Wootliff
Cannabis plant. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
February 20, 2019, 11:38 pm
Pro-marijuana legalization party to sit out elections
Green Leaf says decision not to run will force other parties to champion legalization in order to pick up its voters’ support
By TOI staff
The entrance to the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank. (Flash90/File)
August 7, 2015, 3:07 pm
At Yitzhar, heartland of settler extremism, hostility to State of Israel is no secret
Spokesman condemns firebombing murder of Palestinian baby, won’t apologize for whichever ‘lunatic’ carried it out
By Simona Weinglass
A ballot being counted for the pro-marijuana Green Leaf party, which did not cross the electoral threshold, on March 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 19, 2015, 4:20 pm
Over 235,000 votes thrown in trash
Between disqualified ballots and votes for parties that did not make the threshhold, most notably Yachad, some 5.5 percent of voters won’t have their voices count
By Judah Ari Gross
An ultra-Orthodox man casts his vote in the town of Bnei Brak, Tuesday, January 22, 2013. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
January 23, 2013, 11:06 am
How Israelis voted — from Jerusalem to Tayibe to Efrat
The capital backs the ultra-Orthodox, Modi’in rallies behind Yair Lapid, and some Arab voters cast ballots for the Jewish Home
By Stuart Winer
Part of the disqualified Green Leaf Party ad (photo credit: photo capture/Youtube)
January 17, 2013, 9:46 am
Green Leaf party accused of using subliminal messaging
‘What were they smoking?’ pro-legalization slate says of reports
By 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
A marijuana plant. (photo credit: AP)
January 13, 2013, 6:57 pm
Green Leaf threatens to expose pot-toking politicians
Liberal party that advocates legalizing marijuana says it has names, photos and testimony incriminating 18 prospective Knesset members
By Ilan Ben Zion
A man dresses as a marijuana leaf during a gathering in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park to mark 'International Marijuana Day' on April 20. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
January 13, 2013, 4:51 pm
Don’t forget your greens
Survey shows majority of Israelis cannot differentiate between the Green and the Green Leaf political parties
By Asher Zeiger
Ohad Shem Tov of the Pirate party wears a fake hook as he poses for a photograph outside the Israeli parliament, December 05, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 6, 2012, 10:01 pm
With 34 party slates set, Pirates, potheads and protesters will jostle for votes with the big boys
As the registration deadline passes, the establishment and the eccentric no-hopers get ready to battle for seats in the Knesset
By Raphael Ahren
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