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Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Education Minister Naftali Bennett hold a press conference of the New Right Political party, in Tel Aviv on March 17, 2019. (Flash90)
Jacob Magid
Analysis
Jacob Magid
How did 2 of Israel’s most prominent ministers end up outside the 21st Knesset?
Bolting Jewish Home for New Right, Bennett and Shaked offered a trailblazing religious-secular partnership. Bizarrely they then reversed, and tried to return to an unforgiving base
Rafi Peretz addresses supporters at the URWP election results party in Kfar Maccabiah on April 9, 2019. (Nachshon Pillipson)
URWP head proposes technical bloc with UTJ, Shas for coalition talks and beyond
By Jacob Magid
Education Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked announce the establishment of the New Right party, at a press conference in Tel Aviv, on December 29, 2018. (Jack Guez AFP/File)
April 14, 2019, 11:49 pm
Bennett and Shaked to part ways after stunning defeat – report
Central Elections Committee says that other than one uncounted ballot, New Right team did not find any ‘missing’ votes
By TOI staff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) holds a proclamation signed by U.S. President Donald Trump recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, during a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on April 14, 2019. (Photo by RONEN ZVULUN / AFP)
April 14, 2019, 2:36 pm
PM toasts reelection at cabinet meeting, Bennett and Shaked are no-shows
New Right leaders, fresh from narrow election loss, avoid celebratory gathering; PM praises Beresheet moon mission, vows to back a second try: ‘We don’t give up’
By TOI staff
Education Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked announce the establishment of the New Right party, at a press conference in Tel Aviv, on December 29, 2018. (Jack Guez AFP/File)
April 14, 2019, 1:17 pm
Elections committee blasts New Right’s claims of irregularities as false
The Bennett-Shaked party, which fell just 1,461 votes shy of entering the Knesset, had alleged problems in the counting process of special ballots
By TOI staff
Naftali Bennett visits a school in Tel Aviv on May 10, 2016. (Yaacov Cohen/Flash90)
April 12, 2019, 2:15 pm
Close, but no cigar: 7 things to know for April 12
Both Bennett and Beresheet get oh so near to their respective goals, only to be thwarted by harsh reality at the last moment
By Joshua Davidovich
Rafi Peretz addresses supporters at the URWP election results party in Kfar Maccabiah on April 9, 2019. (Nachshon Pillipson)
April 12, 2019, 8:57 am
URWP head proposes technical bloc with UTJ, Shas for coalition talks and beyond
Rafi Peretz reaches out to ultra-Orthodox, proposing they join forces to advance issues of religion and state, then stick together as 20-strong bloc in Knesset too
By Jacob Magid
Minister of Education Naftali Bennett (C) with his wife Gilat greet Sheldon Adelson (R) and his wife Miriam at the cornerstone setting ceremony for the new school of medicine at Ariel University, June 28, 2017. (Courtesy)
April 12, 2019, 4:40 am
Israel okays medical school at West Bank university
Sheldon Adelson donated $20 million to Ariel University in 2017 to expand, including building the medical school
By JTA
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Education Minister Naftali Bennett hold a press conference of the New Right Political party, in Tel Aviv on March 17, 2019. (Flash90)
April 12, 2019, 3:40 am
How did 2 of Israel’s most prominent ministers end up outside the 21st Knesset?
Bolting Jewish Home for New Right, Bennett and Shaked offered a trailblazing religious-secular partnership. Bizarrely they then reversed, and tried to return to an unforgiving base
By Jacob Magid
Union of Right-Wing Parties leader Rafi Peretz (R) and MK Bezalel Smotrich are greeted by supporters at the party headquarters, April 9, 2019. (Flash90)
April 11, 2019, 4:16 pm
URWP bickers over support for New Right’s call for recount
When they broke from Jewish Home, Shaked and Bennett left an angry religious-Zionist faction behind — one none too eager to back them as they hover just short of the threshold
By TOI staff
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, left, and Education Minister Nafatli Bennett announce the establishment of the New Right (HaYamin HeHadash) party at a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 29, 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP)
April 11, 2019, 12:01 pm
New Right demands recount after it falls just short of winning Knesset seats
URWP MK joins call as Central Elections Committee official issues final results, committee reviews tally process; New Right sources allege elections being ‘stolen from right wing’
By Michael Bachner and TOI staff
The New Right party co-leaders Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett hold a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 17, 2019. (Flash90)
April 11, 2019, 6:01 am
After night of vote-counting, New Right appears just short of entering Knesset
Tallying ballots from soldiers, diplomats and prisoners to be completed later Thursday, with Bennett and Shaked’s party seemingly 0.03% under mark
By TOI staff
Officials count the remaining ballots from soldiers and absentees at the Knesset in Jerusalem, a day after the general elections, April 10, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
April 11, 2019, 12:44 am
Final 265,000 votes being counted, with fate of New Right in the balance
Tallying ballots from soldiers, diplomats and prisoners likely to be completed Thursday morning, with Naftali Bennett’s party 4,300 votes short of entering Knesset
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, surrounded by Likud politicians and his wife Sara, addresses his supporters as the the results of the Israeli general elections are announced, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, in the early hours of April 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
April 10, 2019, 10:04 pm
How will Netanyahu try to stave off indictment, and will he annex settlements?
A day after he won a fifth term, speculation abounds over which ministers, from which parties, the PM will appoint to which jobs — because those choices will point to his strategy
By David Horovitz
New Right co-leaders Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett address supporters at their campaign headquarters in Bnei Brak at the end of election day, April 9, 2019. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
April 10, 2019, 1:56 am
New Right supporters fear the worst, despite party leaders’ assurances
While Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked assert they’ll comfortably cross threshold, TV exit polls showing the contrary leave party activists far more frustrated than hopeful
By Jacob Magid
An election campaign poster showing Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman, in Jerusalem on April 2, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 9, 2019, 5:23 pm
Yisrael Beytenu accuses New Right of false campaign targeting its voters
Both right-wing parties troubled by prospect of failing to make it into the next Knesset; Bennett urges activists to vote, saying party is ‘in real danger’
By TOI staff
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz votes at a polling station in his hometown of Rosh Ha'ayin on April 9, 2019. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)
April 9, 2019, 1:36 pm
Party leaders flock to polls, pitch for votes; turnout slightly down
Over 35 percent of eligible voters cast ballots by 2, down less than 1% from 2015; campaigning politicians hit voting stations early and often
By Tamar Pileggi and Raoul Wootliff
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