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Mar. 17, 2021
What does the Arab public really think about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s flip-flopping? What are the different approaches to keeping out of, or taking part in, Israeli politics? What s behind the failure of the latest attempts to form a center-left government with Arab lawmakers support? What does a real partnership on the ground look like, and what are the main obstacles to its success?
Haaretz s Conference on Jewish-Arab Political Partnership, together with the civil society group Have You Seen the Horizon Lately? and the Bokra news site, have given these issues and more a platform. This discourse comes in light of the deep shifts both the Arab and the Jewish public are undergoing ahead of the 2021 election.
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Mar. 17, 2021
Six days to Israel fourth election in two years, parties on the left and right are scrambling to ensure their supporters show up at the moment of truth. The most significant variable in next Tuesday s election could prove to be a game changer: voter turnout.
Turnout will determine whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can form a coalition, whether any of the prime minister s challengers can stage an upset, and whether a slew of smaller parties will make it into the Knesset at all.
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Mar. 16, 2021
Merav Michaeli is hardly the first Labor Party leader to head south to Kibbutz Nahal Oz in an effort to galvanize the base.
Senior kibbutz members said they’ve lost count of the number of such visits over the years, and it’s hard to blame them. Heading this left-wing party is a high-turnover job: Michaeli is the ninth person to lead Labor since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, with several even returning to do the job a second time.
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The proposed deal would drop the criminal case against Balad itself, returning that aspect of the investigation to the State Comptroller’s Office. The government watchdog could fine the party hundreds of thousands of shekels. The negotiations are not expected to conclude before Tuesday’s Knesset election.
No charges have been brought against Zoabi and 35 other Balad party members, including senior party figures. They allegedly accepted 3.2 million shekels ($970,000) in campaign donations from abroad, concealing the transactions from the State Comptroller’s Office using false receipts. The donations were used in 2013 for Balad’s Knesset campaign and local elections.