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U.S. Elections 2012

Americans in Israel toast to four more years of Obama

On the eve of the Israeli elections, U.S. immigrants and visitors gathered to watch a live broadcast of Obama's inauguration in Washington, D.C.

By Andrew Esensten | Jan 22, 2013 | 06:04 PM

Obama inauguration ceremony enters second day
By The Associated Press | 2
On his day of inauguration and triumph, Obama presents a 'progressive manifesto'
By Chemi Shalev | 6
Obama: U.S. will back democracy from Asia to Africa, Americas to Middle East
By Reuters and Haaretz | 7
LIVE BLOG: Obama sworn in for second term as U.S. president
By Haaretz | 18
President Barack Obama's inaugural address
By The Associated Press | 1

President Barack Obama holds up a pen as he speaks about the economy and the deficit, November 9, 20

Obama wins in Florida, besting Romney in final vote count

No matter the outcome, Obama had already clinched re-election and now has 332 electoral votes to Republican challenger Mitt Romney's 206.

By The Associated Press | Nov 10, 2012 | 09:02 PM | 4

Americans young and old gathering for a post-election party at Jerusalem’s Coffee Bean Wednesday.

Far from home, Obama supporters living in Israel rejoice

The get-out-the-vote organization iVoteIsrael announced last week that it processed voter registration requests of some 80,000 U.S. citizens living in Israel.

By Mordechai I. Twersky | Nov 9, 2012 | 03:48 AM | 5

Republican Jewish Coalition members campaigning in Pennsylvania.

Sibling rivalry: American Jews spar over the meaning of the Jewish vote

Obama won some 69 percent of the Jewish vote, according to exit polls – which is either a big drop, a small drop, or no drop from 2008, depending on whether you ask Republicans or Democrats.

By Dina Kraft | Nov 8, 2012 | 07:20 PM | 10

So sorry, President Obama, please forgive Netanyahu

Dear Mr. President, you must continue what you tried to do at the beginning of your term. Then you didn’t succeed, but now we’re telling you: Finish it. For our sake, finish it.

By Yossi Sarid | Nov 8, 2012 | 01:44 PM | 69

Israel needs to build alliances with a changing America

It's up to Netanyahu, the junior partner in U.S.-Israel relations, to repair relations with Obama, newly-elected president of the world’s most powerful country.

By Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie | Nov 8, 2012 | 01:15 PM | 27

Millicent Owuor, 20, carries her newly born twin boys Obama and Romney

Kenyan mother names twin boys after Obama and Romney

Millicent Owuor, 20, delivered her twins at a hospital in Siaya on the day Obama was re-elected.

By DPA | Nov 8, 2012 | 01:14 PM

U.S. President Barack Obama makes calls to volunteers

Obama's election triumph still excites, just a little less

From the opening of Barack Obama's acceptance speech, it was clear: There wasn't going to be any more "yes, we can." At most, "yes, we'll try."

By Gideon Levy | Nov 8, 2012 | 08:01 AM

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach campaigning − unsuccessfully − in New Jersey

After celebrations, U.S. Jews' thoughts turn to ties with Israel

While President Obama's supporters are contented, the results show a divided nation and a serious erosion of the Jewish Democratic vote.

By Natasha Mozgovaya | Nov 8, 2012 | 07:31 AM | 14

Barack Obama with Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas

For Obama, a new term could mean a different take on Middle East peace

Cairo, the site of the U.S. president's 2009 speech, like the entire Arab world, is totally different from what it was at the start of Obama's tenure. The new Middle East reality poses new challenges for the United States, as well as different rules.

By Akiva Eldar | Nov 7, 2012 | 11:45 PM | 48

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during his election night victory rally in Chicago, Nov. 7, 2012.

After victory, Obama urges bipartisan work to avoid fiscal crisis

U.S. president tells parties' leaders to 'put aside their partisan interests'; Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives: We won't solve the problem of our fiscal imbalance overnight

By Reuters | Nov 7, 2012 | 10:42 PM | 2

West of Eden

Don Quixote John Kerry vs. the Middle East’s hysterical hypochondriacs of history

By Chemi Shalev | 11:00 AM | 9

Stephen Hawking is now the academic boycott movement’s unlikely poster boy

By Chemi Shalev | 09:30 PM | 69

Of course Israelis want peace, but now's not a good time. Can you come back later?

By Chemi Shalev | 06:40 PM | 19

Focus U.S.A.

Orphan children play in their bedroom at an orphanage in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.

In clash with U.S., Russia isn't above using its own orphans as pawns

By Natasha Mozgovaya | 06:37 PM

Peace process may be on ice, but it's still a hot-button issue

By Natasha Mozgovaya | 02:49 PM

Would a Hagel nomination really be a slap in Israel's face?

By Natasha Mozgovaya | 12:07 PM | 20