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The failure of any or all of these four parties would mean that anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of center-left votes would go unrepresented in the Knesset, effectively working to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s advantage. That said, Netanyahu would almost certainly be prevented from establishing a coalition if Religious Zionism failed to pass the threshold.
With 30 days to go until Election Day, the rise and fall of Israel s small parties is the main issue on the agenda and will have significant implications for how the coalition will be built, who will stand at its helm, and whether or not Israel will be dragged into its fifth election in a little more than two years.
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The interview was also a trigger for some in the audience, evoking the Benny Gantz trauma, and the shame they felt when the one they voted for to defeat Netanyahu surrendered and subjugated himself to him. Levi is now the “Just not Bibi” camp’s scapegoat, and all of its frustration with its own political impotence is directed at her.
As far as these people are concerned, Levi had been sent to wage a political battle. It was not an interview. They see the duel as one between the truth and falsehood. And falsehood won. Levi let falsehood beat the truth. And what is the truth? The facts.
The Central Elections Committee’s decision Wednesday to disqualify the candidacy of Ibtisam Mara’ana, seventh on the Labor slate of candidates for the Knesset, could not
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Feb. 17, 2021
Israel s Central Election Committee voted on Wednesday to disqualify Ibtisam Mara’ana, number 7 on the Labor slate, for comments she made on social media.
The request was filed by the far-right, Kahanist Otzma Yehudit party, which claimed that Mara’ana called for destruction of the State of Israel by returning the Jewish people to European countries where they faced genocide, when she said I would destroy [the Israeli city] of Zichron Yaakov … so you d return to the U.S. or to Poland. Mara’ana s comments were made in 2008 in an interview to a local paper, as part of a sentence that began with the words If I were to invoke an apocalyptic scenario.
In the second of a series of articles ahead of Israel’s March 23 election, a brief explanation of Israel’s coalition blocs and what makes this year’s election unique