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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

In the running

Former Shas MK Haim Amsalem in the Knesset in 2010. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
January 22, 2013, 10:21 am
Vote for us: The profiles
In the final weeks of the campaign, The Times of Israel’s Matti Friedman interviewed and profiled six very different Knesset candidates. As voters choose their parties, here’s his reminder of some of the more compelling prospective MKs
MK Hanna Swaid, foreground, of the Jewish-Arab Hadash party. (Courtesy of Hanna Swaid)
January 16, 2013, 2:21 pm
Coexistence, despite everything
In the jungle of the Knesset, Hanna Swaid is an endangered species. The final installment in a six-part series of profiles ahead of the elections
By Matti Friedman
Danny Danon speaks at a rally in 2010. Once a back-bencher, Danon is now ninth on the Likud list, putting him within reach of a Cabinet post (Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90)
January 8, 2013, 7:31 pm
The new face of Likud
Until now, Danny Danon was a marginal character from the extremist back benches. In the next Knesset, he will be at the heart of Israel’s ruling party
By Matti Friedman
Omer Barlev (photo credit: Flash90)
January 2, 2013, 9:07 am
Israel can’t afford to sit and do nothing, says Labor’s new defense man
Omer Barlev — son of a former chief of staff, the ex-commander of one of the army’s most elite units and a hi-tech entrepreneur — knew Benjamin Netanyahu as a soldier. He has few kind words for him today
By Matti Friedman
Ayelet Shaked, center, with Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett, right. Shaked, who is not Orthodox, says her views are "identical to those of religious Zionism" (photo credit: Courtesy of Jewish Home/Ayelet Shaked)
December 26, 2012, 1:55 pm
The new (secular) face of religious Zionism
Ayelet Shaked wants to bring the ideology of the settlements from the West Bank into the Israeli mainstream. With her Jewish Home party surging in the polls, she might do just that
By Matti Friedman
After retiring from the army, Elazar Stern, as an MK, pushed for reform in the civilian conversion process (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
December 18, 2012, 11:11 am
Uniform off, an outspoken general takes on the political system
Elazar Stern brings his unique brand of blunt, Orthodox, centrist Zionism from the military to the 2013 election
By Matti Friedman
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
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