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Otzma Leyisrael party

Baruch Marzel, with beard, speaking to the press with attorney Itamar ben Gvir at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on February 17, 2015. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)
February 18, 2015, 8:07 pm
The extremist who could bring Kahanism back to the Knesset
Having survived a bid to bar him, Boston-born ultra-nationalist Baruch Marzel is set to become an MK, though his dreams of expelling Israel’s Arabs are seen more as empty threats than actual danger
By Raphael Ahren
Michael Ben Ari introduces his campaign slogan 'There are no rights without duties' at a press conference in Jerusalem, November 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 27, 2013, 8:41 pm
Arab town doesn’t love anti-Arab party
Count showing 109 votes in Jisr a-Zarka given to extreme right Otzma Leyisrael was a mistake
By Aaron Kalman
Judge Elyakim Rubinstein, head of the Central Election Committee, tallying votes in Jerusalem on Tuesday. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 24, 2013, 4:26 pm
Final vote tally gives Kadima reprieve, Jewish Home a 12th seat
Arab party Ra’am-Ta’al drops to four seats as last ballots counted, shifting balance of blocs 61-59 in favor of right wing
By Joshua Davidovich
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
Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz and his wife arrive at a polling station in Kohav Yair to cast their votes on Tuesday, January 22 (photo credit: Flash90)
January 23, 2013, 11:42 pm
Kadima wins reprieve, Jewish Home takes 12th spot as vote count ends
United Arab List expected to drop to four seats as last election slips from soldiers, prisoners, hospital patients and diplomats tallied
By Joshua Davidovich
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
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)
January 23, 2013, 2:49 pm
Israel’s elections: What just happened?
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
By David Horovitz
Four years ago: Then prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Shimon Peres to discuss forming a governing coalition, March 20, 2009 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash 90)
January 22, 2013, 6:48 pm
Netanyahu’s headaches may only just be beginning
If Israeli politics snap back to the pre-2000 balance, President Peres just might have significant influence over who forms the next coalition
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Otzma Leyisrael #2 Michael Ben Ari attends a soccer game between Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Tel Aviv on Monday evening, the day before Israeli elections. (photo credit: Roy Alima/Flash90)
January 22, 2013, 12:59 pm
Right-wing parties trade allegations of dirty deeds
Members of Otzma Leyisrael accuse Jewish Home party activists of removing voting slips from station in Yad Binyamin
By Asher Zeiger
A man hangs a huge poster with an image of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overlooking the Ayalon freeway in Tel Aviv on Thursday (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)
January 18, 2013, 7:39 am
Final newspaper polls give right wing narrowest lead of race
Four days before elections, support for Likud-Beytenu is lower than ever; 15% of voters remain undecided
By Ron Friedman and Yoel Goldman
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
Part of Balad's campaign, showing right wing politicians singing the Israeli national anthem in an 'Arab' tune (photo capture: screen capture Youtube)
January 16, 2013, 12:19 am
High court overturns decision to ban election ads
Far-left Balad, far-right Otzma Leyisrael can run full versions of their commercials; Jewish Home party fined for violations
By Aaron Kalman
Right-wing protesters, including Itamar Ben Gvir (in blue), march through Jaffa on March 2, 2011. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
January 15, 2013, 5:28 pm
Right-wing march in Arab town passes without incident
Otzma Leyisrael party leaders have made Arab Israelis a fixture of their Knesset campaign
By Gabe Fisher
January 14, 2013, 10:58 am
Why I’m voting for Otzma Leyisrael
It’s the only party that has upheld the principle that the land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel
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