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France in talks with U.S. and Israel to buy drones, French minister says (Reuters)
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Syrian rebels withdraw from prison in Aleppo after heavy fighting with government troops (AP)
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UN Chief concerned over 'provocative' North Korea short range missile launch (Reuters)
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Iran hangs two alleged spies who sold classified information to Israel, U.S. (DPA)
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Iran hangs two alleged spies who sold classified information to Israeli, U.S. (DPA)
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Afghan parliament suspends debate on women's rights (DPA)
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Denmark wins Eurovision Song Contest (Army Radio)
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Gunmen kill senior woman member of Pakistani reformist party led by Imran Khan (Reuters)
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Report: Syria ready to launch missiles on Tel Aviv in case Israel strikes again (Haaretz)
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More than a dozen injured as car plows through parade in Virginia (Reuters)
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Two brothers wounded in shooting in Galilee village, police investigates (Haaretz)
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A protester is arrested in the demonstration outside Yitzhak Teshuva's house (Ch. 10)
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Close to 1,000 protesting cost of living in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Be'er Sheva (Haaretz)
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Syria: Gunmen abducted the elderly father of Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad (AP)
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Yacimovich: If we find ourselves on the eve of a peace treaty we will join the government (Ch. 10)

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Israeli election: News & Features

Israel's new Education Minister accused of past ethnic discrimination

Rabbi Shai Piron is accused by two students of having discriminated against ethnic groups at the school where he was principal from 1995 to 2007.

By Lior Dattel | Mar 20, 2013 | 04:40 PM | 3

Education Minister Shai Piron.

Racist incitement by Israeli public figures doubled in 2012, study shows
By Jack Khoury | 13
New coalition agreement is landmark for Israeli education
By Meirav Arlosoroff | 3
Yair Lapid's strange choice
By Sefi Rachlevsky | 2

Yesh Atid

LIVE BLOG: Israel Elections 2013, the day after

Of the more than 5.65 million Israelis eligible to vote, some 3.6 million cast their ballots, with a turnout of 4 percent more than in the 2009 elections.

By Haaretz | Jan 23, 2013 | 05:00 PM | 5

Rabbi Dov Lipman.

Yesh Atid's Dov Lipman to relinquish U.S. citizenship to serve in Knesset

The number 17 in Yair Lapid's party, who immigrated to Israel from Silver Spring, Maryland, eight years ago, is the third dual citizen to serve in the Knesset and the first to give it up voluntarily.

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | Jan 23, 2013 | 04:29 PM | 10

Otzma Leyisrael

Quarter-million votes go to parties that won't pass minimum threshold

It appears that some seven percent of voters, or at least 248,000 Israelis, cast their ballots for parties who will not pass the electoral threshold, and thus won't have seats in the 19th Knesset.

By Ilan Lior | Jan 23, 2013 | 03:00 PM | 3

Netanyahu's back, but many other members of Knesset are not.

In wake of Israeli election, almost half of Knesset wiped out

In an unusually destructive round of voting, nearly half of Israel’ legislators will be leaving office, including most Kadima party members.

By Jonathan Lis | Jan 23, 2013 | 02:08 PM

Tel Aviv beach on Election Day

Israel's two big cities had vastly different voting patterns

The White City and the Holy City, in a sense, represent Israel’s two polar extremes, and nowhere is this more pronounced than in how each one votes.

By Judy Maltz | Jan 23, 2013 | 02:07 PM

Golani soldiers voting on the snowbound Mount Hermon Monday.

Israel’s election results: insights and oddities

Tel Avivians preferred Yair Lapid, Jerusalemites favored UTJ; like Ohio, Rehovot results reflect general vote; 80% voted in Sakhnin; Kadita overwhelmingly votes Eretz Chadasha. But what were the oddest results?

By Nir Hasson | Jan 23, 2013 | 11:47 AM | 2

An Israeli woman votes in Tel Aviv, Israel, during legislative elections, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013

Israel's right, left blocs in dead heat as 99% of votes tallied

Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu claimed 31 seats, Yesh Atid 19, Labor 15, Shas 11, Habayit Hayehudi 11, United Torah Judaism 7, Hatnuah 6, Meretz 6, United Arab List-Ta’al 5, Balad 3, and Kadima likely to win 2 seats.

By Haaretz | Jan 23, 2013 | 09:28 AM | 22

Tamara Cohen, who voted at a community center in the Yemenite Quarter of Tel Aviv on Tues. morning

New immigrants thrilled to cast ballots in Israel, despite 'primitive' voting mechanism

First-time voters shocked by un-Israeli vibe at polling stations, being met with calm scenes and a distinctly non-high-tech approach

By Andrew Esensten | Jan 23, 2013 | 08:25 AM | 3

Shlelly

Shelly is still the queen of the kibbutz

The Labor Party leader was the target of much criticism by kibbutz members during the campaign, but on Election Day she got a warm welcome at Givat Brenner.

By Jonathan Lis | Jan 23, 2013 | 05:00 AM

Netanyahu speaking to reporters in Netanya on Election Day, January 22, 2013.

Likud shocked as voters swing to the left and center

One minister used the term 'crash' to describe the party’s trajectory.

By Barak Ravid | Jan 23, 2013 | 02:50 AM

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