Israel election

JERUSALEM — Israeli election results augur a slim parliamentary majority for former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's most divisive leader, ...

Another party, the nationalist Balad, broke away from a joint list and attracted voters unwilling to cooperate with Jewish parties. Ahead of the election, Palestinian voters expressed disillusionment with Arab politicians and a Jewish-dominated political system they say marginalizes their communities. That support has not yet translated into enough votes to cross the threshold, however. That figure would represent a 10-percent increase from the last election. Ben Gvir has roots in the overtly racist Kach party founded by a radical American rabbi, Meir Kahane, and banned by Israel. Escalating Israeli raids in the West Bank have put 2022 on track to be the [deadliest year](https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-israel-united-nations-west-bank-peace-process-e7ef5c3b74d71ade2032a8c9dc4a703b) for Palestinians there since the United Nations began keeping records in 2005. The results showed that the left-wing Labor party only narrowly passed the four seat threshold and that the other left-wing party, Meretz, as well as the Arab party, Balad, remained below that number. Projections by all of Israel’s three largest television news channels give a Netanyahu-led bloc between 62 and 65 seats, past the parliamentary majority required in the 120-seat Knesset. The next prime minister!” and “death to terrorists!” His campaign relied on securing the support of smaller parties. Ben Gvir has demanded to be appointed public security minister, which oversees the police. “We’re demanding to make an absolute distinction between those who are loyal to Israel, with whom we have no problem at all, and those who are undermining our precious country,” he said, addressing a packed crowd of predominantly young, religious men, dancing to thumping house music while alternating between the chants, “Ooh-ah!

The vicious cycle of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory will not stop unless Israel ends its occupation, instead Israel's election results ...

The international community must push Israeli authorities to immediately cease the forcible transfer of communities in Area C, which continue to witness excessive use of force, property destruction and settler violence. “Israel and its allies in the US, Europe and the Arab world continue to brush off the suffering of millions of Palestinians. NRC urges the Israeli government to reverse its movement restrictions on people and goods in line with international legal obligations to allow sustainable economic recovery and development. This number puts 2022 on track to be the deadliest year on record for Palestinians in the West Bank. That they are not allowed to go farther than an hour’s drive because of the Israeli-imposed siege,” said Egeland. In the occupied West Bank, 118 Palestinians have been killed since the Israeli military launched its new operation on 31 March, including 29 children under the age of 18. It means that for villagers in the West Bank, there are chances that they will get shot at, detained without charge or have their home knocked down. That their children do not know what the outside world looks like. This means that 2022 is projected to match last year’s five-year high in demolitions. “The occupation means that teenagers in Gaza have spent the entirety of their lives under siege and will have known nowhere else because they cannot get out. “I'm alarmed by the rise in tensions in occupied Palestinian territory I witnessed first-hand this week. We need determined international action to secure this does not escalate further,” said Egeland on a visit to the occupied Palestinian territory this week.

JERUSALEM, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Israel's former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to return to power in one of the most right-wing coalitions in ...

He has moderated some of his more extreme positions. terrorist watchlists, and was once convicted for racist incitement. It remains unclear what position Ben-Gvir and fellow far-right leader Bezalel Smotrich may have in a Netanyahu-led government. After a campaign dominated by worries over security and the cost of living, support for centrist Prime Minister Yair Lapid's ruling coalition collapsed. Lapid stopped short of conceding victory pending the final tally. they want diplomatic wisdom, but with firmness."

Israel may be poised to seat its most right-wing government ever, as Netanyahu is bolstered by an ultranationalist, anti-Arab, anti-LGBTQ political ...

But the coalition that Lapid cobbled together, which included the first Arab party ever to join a government, was decimated by infighting and collapsed after just one year in power. He has described Arab colleagues in parliament as "terrorists," called for deporting those who are "disloyal" and recently brandished a handgun in a tense Palestinian neighborhood of Jerusalem as he called on police to shoot Palestinian stone-throwers. Ben-Gvir is a disciple of the racist U.S.-born rabbi Meir Kahane, who was banned from parliament and whose Kach party was branded a terrorist group by the United States before he was assassinated in New York in 1990. The pair have also said they will seek legal reforms aimed at weakening the independence of the judiciary and giving parliament power to override court decisions they don't like. With 80% of the ballots from national elections counted, voters appeared to have given the political veteran — and his far-right allies — a stable majority in the country's parliament. It could also alienate Israeli allies in the U.S., particularly the predominantly liberal Jewish American community. Along with his partners, Ben-Gvir and Religious Zionism emerged as the third-largest party after the voting. "We are on the verge of a very big victory," Netanyahu, 73, told supporters at a gathering in Jerusalem early Wednesday. Ben-Gvir has said he will demand the cabinet post overseeing Israel's police force. Elections officials worked through the night tallying votes and by Wednesday morning, nearly 80% of the ballots had been counted. But if preliminary indications were correct, Israel was poised to seat its most right-wing government, bolstered by a strong showing from the ultranationalist Religious Zionism political alliance, whose members use inflammatory anti-Arab and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. At an all-male campaign gathering in Jerusalem, religious men wearing Jewish skullcaps and waving Israeli flags danced in celebration.

Israel's former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed “a huge vote of confidence” in Tuesday's parliamentary elections, with a partial count putting his ...

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The former prime minister's right-wing and religious-nationalist bloc is projected to win as many as 65 seats in the 120-seat parliament.

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With 86% of the votes counted, the ex-prime minister and allies on the far-right look on course to win a parliamentary majority, though the outcome is still ...

They have refused to sit with him in government. However, the outcome could change when the official results are announced. “I will establish a nationalist government that will see to all Israeli citizens without any exceptions.”

He called to return "national pride" in a Jewish state and impose tougher law enforcement against Palestinians and Palestinian citizens of Israel. "My hopes ...

All of them are in a near danger for the near future." "But I am sorry to tell you that I feel disconnected to the reality, and Israel's going to a sad, dark, bad place." "The country is going into a very clear direction of nationalism and religious extremism ... "My hopes were that the Jewish people would win and Judaism would win, and we won in the end," says Netanyahu voter Haim Asher. "We are on the cusp of a very big victory," Netanyahu — known by his nickname Bibi — told supporters after exit polls were released. Netanyahu consolidated the right-wing vote by campaigning against the ruling coalition that deposed him, which included an Arab political party for the first time in Israel's history.

Benjamin Netanyahu concluded his recent autobiography "Bibi: My Story" with a declaration that his time on the opposition benches, after an election loss in ...

Still, cracks have appeared in the once ironclad rapport between Netanyahu and Trump. As prime minister again, Netanyahu will have to deal with another Democratic president, Joe Biden - and hope for reelection of Republican former President Donald Trump. He still managed to normalize ties with Gulf Arab states despite waging three wars against the Palestinians in Gaza. Netanyahu's disputes with Obama distressed many U.S. speech to underscore Tehran's technological progress. Netanyahu, 73, has pledged to build on the achievement of his previous term, the Abraham Accords with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, that opened the way for a possible normalization of relations with other Arab countries.

Former Israeli Prime Minister and Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu cast their vote in the Israeli general election on November ...

Both Palestinian attackers were killed, in a cycle of violence that the new prime minister will need to deal with – if, indeed, there is a new prime minister as a result of Tuesday’s vote. As a strategy, it does not seem to have reduced the level of violence: at least one Israeli civilian was shot and killed near Hebron in the West Bank on Saturday, and others were wounded in the same incident – as were two medics who responded, one Israeli and one Palestinian. The cost of living is skyrocketing in Israel as in so many other places, with energy and grocery bills spiking. To determine how many seats each party gets, election officials first need to determine which parties crossed the threshold. Pro-Netanyahu ads – and ads depicting his opponents looking shady – plastered the sides of buses. The exit polls are only projections based on interviews with voters on Tuesday, not official results. That is what we are going to bring,” Netanyahu told CNN in English at his polling station in Jerusalem. The Central Election Committee said that two-thirds of eligible voters cast their ballots by 8 p.m. Nearly half (44%) of Israeli voters said it was the most important factor, well ahead of the quarter (24%) who said party leader was the determiner. The alliance is comprised of Netanyahu’s Likud party, Religious Zionism/Jewish Power, Shas and United Torah Judaism. The election was marked by what was likely the highest turnout since 1999. Then they can work out how many votes it takes to win a single Knesset seat, and dole out seats to the parties based on the number of votes they got.

If parties rise above the electoral threshold or drop below the Knesset mandate distribution could change.

Had they passed, however, party leader Zehava Galon and Michal Rozin would have brought the number of women in the opposition up to 21. The number of double envelopes is far higher than in previous elections and therefore it is still unclear what the final results will be. She has stated in the past that one of her main goals was to reduce the disparity between Arab and Jewish women. While Waldiger has not specifically made women's issues the center of her portfolio, she has vowed to put mental health at the top of her agenda, and served as the chairwoman for Bat Ami for five years, working religious girls during their National Service. The freedom of Arab women to enjoy one night that is quiet and free of anxiety, without tossing and turning in bed, wondering whether their child will be murdered on the street at night or will return home safely. She then returned to Knesset in 2021 as part of the Religious Zionist Party's list. Shtayyeh said that the Palestinian people will not stop their “legitimate struggle to end the occupation, gain their freedom, and establish their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital, regardless of the identity of the winners of the Israeli elections. "The freedom of women to walk around safely in the office, on the street, inside their homes. [Miri Regev](https://www.jpost.com/opinion/miri-regev-using-ethnicity-for-political-career-is-dangerous-editorial-676787) has climbed to impressive heights throughout both her political career and the military career that came before it, expanding the glass ceiling for her female peers. All you need to do is look at what happened in South Africa to get a glimpse of the kind of economic sanctions that we may get hit with if this government follows through with even a part of the things that they promised to do.”Prof. If a critical mass of the young, educated and skilled people in Israel reach the conclusion that it's game over and leave in the next few years, then the game ends a lot quicker than it would have otherwise,” he said. [unable to pass the electoral threshold](https://www.jpost.com/israel-elections/article-720472).

Israeli politics has been shifting rightwards for decades, but this new coalition could go further than any before.

“They might take steps against Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank and the Negev, yes. They attack Palestinian children on the way to school, appropriate land, burn olive trees and steal sheep. The fig leaf will be gone,” said Prof As’ad Ghanem, a political sciences lecturer at the University of Haifa and co-author of Israel in the Post Oslo Era. He built a legal career defending Jewish extremists, and in the past called for the deportation of Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up 20% of the population. “Maybe the far right getting in will be a good thing. Both Smotrich and Ben-Gvir expect to receive important cabinet positions, and have already lobbied for control of the justice, defence, finance, and public security ministries. On Wednesday morning, the enormity of what transpired was sinking in. Netanyahu also opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state, but otherwise does not share most of his new partners’ beliefs. The Religious Zionists’ list’s chair, Bezalel Smotrich, is the co-founder of an organisation which pursues legal action against Palestinian building in Israeli-controlled areas of the occupied West Bank. In the short term, the move has paid off: his extremist allies have doubled their number of seats to 13 or 14. Brandishing a pistol – as Ben-Gvir did recently in a Palestinian neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem – he danced his way across the set before taking a seat. Israeli politics has been shifting rightwards for several decades, but Ben-Gvir’s unprecedented success in this week’s election marks a new, dangerous turn.