The elections are over, the votes have been counted, the banners folded away. Benjamin Netanyahu will continue as prime minister. His messages have changed slightly.…
Getting Kadima head Shaul Mofaz to join Likud will enlarge the ruling party’s Knesset faction to 33 seats, and more importantly, will widen the gap between the Knesset’s right-wing and center-left blocs to 63-57.
Most voters at air force-base polling stations preferred Lapid over Netanyahu. Is this because they are more moderate, or because of the implication of the premier’s threats against the Islamic Republic?
Again and again, Netanyahu was photographed at the Western Wall and with IDF soldiers. All this may have looked good on his Facebook page, but it didn’t speak to Israelis’ hearts. Lapid, on the other hand, adapted his message to voters’ interests.
Yair Lapid was conducting a focused, quiet campaign that didn’t garner too much attention, avoided embarrassing slips of the tongue, and remained faithful to Yesh Atid’s message – ‘We’ve come to make a change.’
A prime minister’s performance and popularity are not measured solely by public opinion polls; there’s a no-less-important index that reflects how stable the government, security…
‘The Gatekeepers’ is no ordinary film against the occupation. It’s a narrative history of the Shin Bet, told from the mouths of those who lived it first-hand.
The issue raised by Ehud Olmert should be at the forefront of this election campaign: Can and should Israel bear the enormous defense budget that has grown to unprecedented levels during Netanyahu’s term?
Politicians are drawn like magnets to power and repelled by weakness. They have no choice. If they behave otherwise, they will have trouble surviving. When…
State Comptroller’s report on the Harpaz affair reveals the mutual abhorrence and lack of faith among members of the top defense brass.