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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich, left, and Itamar Ben Gvir of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party at an election campaign tour at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on March 19, 2021, four days before the general election. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) There was a time, not too long ago, when the names Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir would elicit shudders from Leftists and mainstream right-wingers alike. Only two years ago, Smotrich was considered too radical to serve as Benyamin Netanyahu’s Justice Minister and Ben-Gvir too extreme to even be mentioned, much less step foot into the annual AIPAC conference. Today, a much different reality exists, Smotrich ....
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu casts his vote with his wife Sara during Israel’s parliamentary election in Jerusalem April 9, 2019. Photo: Ariel Schalit/Pool via REUTERS. As Israel’s March 23 elections approach, polling has tended to show a deadlock between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc of supporters and the “anti-Bibi” bloc of opponents from both the left and right. A new poll, however, seeks to determine instead what kind of government the Israeli people would actually like to see in power. Mako polled voters by presenting them with a list of both likely and outsider candidates to head specific ministries. Voters were also polled along ideological lines in order to determine which governments would be preferable to specific blocs on the left, center, and right. ....