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Israel Election Insider

With these elections barely over, Israel’s leading politicians are already scrapping for position in the next round – which of them could end up at the very top of the heap?

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jan 27, 2013 | 12:09 PM

Yair Lapid, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Naftali Bennett

Five things we can learn from how IDF soldiers voted in Israeli election
By Anshel Pfeffer
Six unexpected lessons the election taught us about Israelis
By Anshel Pfeffer | 4
Winners and losers: Ten insights on Israeli election exit poll results
By Anshel Pfeffer | 9
U.S. strategist's formula for Lapid’s stunning success: the candidate, the message, and the Internet
By Chemi Shalev | 1

Five things we can learn from how IDF soldiers voted in Israeli election

Likud-Beiteinu received only 24.5% of the soldier's vote, not much more than the party's portion of the general vote (23.3%); the big winner was Naftali Bennett's Habayit Hayehudi, with a whopping 15 percent of the soldiers' votes.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jan 26, 2013 | 07:20 PM

Israel's party leaders cast their ballots in the election for the 19th Knesset

Six unexpected lessons the election taught us about Israelis

Despite doomsday predictions of a sharp turn to the right and mounting disinterestedness, Israeli voters proved that they have a clear vision for their country, and that it's an inclusive and moderate one.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jan 23, 2013 | 03:08 PM | 4

Yesh Atid supporters react to the exit polls, Jan. 22, 2012.

Winners and losers: Ten insights on Israeli election exit poll results

According to the polls, Benjamin Netanyahu is the only man who can form the next government, though it will be a tough job.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jan 22, 2013 | 11:08 PM | 9

Likud election panic – real trouble or last-minute spin?

Netanyahu appears to be panicking in the final voting hours of Israel's election; it may all turn out to be a false alarm and the relatively high turnout will not harm Likud Beiteinu's prospects but for now it seems that they have good reason for worry.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jan 22, 2013 | 07:37 PM

An Israeli woman rides her bicycle past election campaign posters

A show about nothing: The issues that should have dominated the election campaign but didn’t

Netanyahu and his numerous challengers have so much to fight over – from dealing with the Iranian threat and the relationship with the U.S. to housing prices and electoral reform. But all these pivotal issues were absent from the agenda, largely thanks to the media that did little to stir a substantive debate.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jan 21, 2013 | 11:46 PM

Meirav Arlosoroff

Why aren't there entrepreneurs in the Knesset?

Aluf Benn

In the end we're left with Netanyahu

Amir Oren

To entertain versus to govern

Kobi Niv

A government of rich, white men

Gideon Levy

Long live Israel's latest revolution

News & Features

The new education minister, Rabbi Shai Piron. Michal Fattal

Israel's new Education Minister accused of past ethnic discrimination

By Lior Dattel | 04:40 PM | 3

LIVE BLOG: Introducing Israel's 33rd government coalition

By Jonathan Lis, Barak Ravid | 10:33 PM | 27

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By Haaretz.com Staff | 05:55 PM

Lieberman vows to block settlement freeze efforts in Israel's next government

By Jonathan Lis | 12:45 PM | 10

Coalition math: Settlers in, ultra-Orthodox Jews out

By Rotem Starkman | 10:13 PM | 21

Knesset is urged: Don't let cabinet form while seat is illegally held for Lieberman

By Ofra Edelman | 04:26 PM

Yair Lapid: If Israel's finance minister fails, he takes the PM with him

By Zvi Zrahiya, Moti Bassok | 06:02 AM

Netanyahu threatens to bolt to Haredi parties unless Lapid drops 'exaggerated demands'

By Jonathan Lis | 01:37 PM | 14

Israel's AG still avoiding taking stance on reserving Foreign Ministry for Lieberman

By Ofra Edelman | 03:09 AM | 3

Bennett to demand Finance Committee, post coveted by ally Lapid

By Jonathan Lis | 07:27 PM | 2