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Israeli election: Opinion & Analysis

Netanyahu's new coalition chairman, a job nobody wants

The chairmanship is a pivotal but demanding position, and none of the four main candidates for the position in the next government is interested.

By Jonathan Lis | Mar 15, 2013 | 05:10 PM

Israeli coalition is formed, as Yesh Atid, Habayit Hayehudi sign agreement
By Jonathan Lis | 7
Lapid, Bennett agree to join Israel's new government
By Jonathan Lis | 1
Israel's new coalition is the stuff of Benjamin Netanyahu's nightmares
By Yossi Verter | 8
Coalition chairman blasts Justice Minister Livni after opposition gets 2 MKs on key Israeli legal committee
By Jonathan Lis

Palestinian ghettos were always the plan

Right-wing politician Naftali Bennett’s plan to annex Israeli-controlled parts of the West Bank is just the logical next step in Israel’s historic effort to ghettoize the Palestinians.

By Amira Hass | Jan 20, 2013 | 07:23 PM | 112

Seven years with Netanyahu is enough bad luck

The seven bad years with Netanyahu were definitely enough. Unlike Pharaoh, nobody expects to find any fat cows in this dream.

By Amir Oren | Jan 20, 2013 | 04:46 AM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks ahead of the 2013 elections.

Israel's citizens will determine its fate

Nothing is a done deal yet, so go and vote. Or as Bibi put it to Obama: Only Israel's citizens will determine its fate.

By Yoel Marcus | Jan 20, 2013 | 04:46 AM | 5

A screen grab of Jeremy Gimpel speaking at a Florida church in 2011.

Is it the End of Days for Jeremy Gimpel?

The Atlanta-born Knesset candidate under attack for fantasizing about the Dome of the Rock being ‘blown up” has also suggested that the financial crisis in America happened because the U.S. 'shifted away from Israel.'

By Allison Kaplan Sommer | Jan 19, 2013 | 07:23 PM | 8

Long live Bibi the bathtub king

Netanyahu is wedged in our lives and in Israeli history like a stopper, for better and for worse. In the meantime, the water remains stagnant.

By Doron Rosenblum | Jan 18, 2013 | 01:46 AM | 2

Longings and disappointments: A voter in exile in New York

As a weary Israeli whose shoulders are stiff from 20-plus years of voting eligibility and the intolerable responsibility of its implications, this year I am having a respite. But I can't escape all Israelis' feelings of helplessness about the political situation, our compromises of conscience and the grave price we will all be paying for the election's likely outcome.

By Vered Kellner | Jan 18, 2013 | 01:45 AM | 2

The Netanyahu curve: Pricing the regime

The yield on government bonds expresses the level of risk investors attribute to the Israeli economy. From this perspective, the PM is approaching the elections in good shape.

By Aluf Benn | Jan 17, 2013 | 11:37 AM

Whatever happens after Tuesday's elections, American Jews won’t abandon Israel

The coming American Jewish estrangement from Israel is a myth. What actually happens in Israel is much less important to most American Jews than what it stands for in their hearts and minds. But that also means there's no U.S. Jewish leverage on Israelis not to vote the far right into office.

By Dov Waxman | Jan 17, 2013 | 11:33 AM | 25

Hatnuah and Labor elections signs in Tel Aviv, December 2012

Debunking 8 electoral slogans

Given that what politicians say is often loosely related to what they do, here’s a look at common and misleading slogans bouncing around this election season.

By Guy Rolnik | Jan 17, 2013 | 09:33 AM

Koah Lehashpia: Affecting Shas voters

This is actually a one-man party, Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, best known for bringing secular Jews into the fold of traditional Judaism.

By Ilan Lior | Jan 17, 2013 | 05:18 AM

News & Features

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

What to expect from Israel's new government: news and analysis by Haaretz writers

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 | 3