
Analysis Netanyahu's Right Wing Rivals Could Band Together to Bring Him Down
If the two wannabe prime ministers had forged a common slate for the March 23 election, Bibi would be in real trouble right now
If the two wannabe prime ministers had forged a common slate for the March 23 election, Bibi would be in real trouble right now
When Labor and Meretz compete over which one is more leftist, one of them is liable to find itself alone in Israel's March election
A party head with even a shred of shame, principles and self-respect would have announced that he’d rather risk losing a Knesset seat than cooperate with a gang of dangerous extremists
For the last two years, Israel has been on hold, going through a long election campaign interrupted by temporary governments unpalatable to Netanyahu's taste for corruption with impunity
We're used to seeing President Rivlin hand the mandate to Netanyahu to form a government, but this time we may encounter a scenario we've never experienced before
Ron Huldai's party seems to self-destruct in a month's time, due to a few bad decisions and calculations. Might he eke out a couple of Knesset seats just the same, enough to pay back those expensive loans?
Unless its small parties unite, their wasted votes will reelect Netanyahu
With a crowded right, the PM is rediscovering decency, and silencing and sidelining the embarrassing members of his coterie. The maneuver, of course, is an illusion
The plan would have retroactively legalized 46 outposts, but Attorney General Mendelblit refused to consider it without a directive from Defense Minister Gantz
In his frantic search for immunity, the premier puts incitement and fear-mongering aside ■ Meanwhile, he plays the puppet master with Bennett and Smotrich, but Yamina leader could yet prove the kingmaker
The premier's strategy - smart, it must be said - is not merely intended to scrounge up another vote, and leftists will certainly not be able to complain
Israelis watch Trump insurrection aghast: Netanyahu supporters could do that here ■ In time of coronavirus, petty politics kills ■ Lapid deals blow to Netanyahu and Gantz
At the moment, the main assets of Benny Gantz's party are its significant funding and a bit of kindly sympathy for its battered leader
Government Press Office photographers were conspicuously missing from the spy Jonathan Pollard's reception in Israel. Who does it benefit to leave the event out of the official record?
Former TLV Mayor Huldai's new party steals Gantz's justice minister, and his thunder, as it aims to consolidate its position as a serious left-wing alternative to Netanyahu
Meanwhile, justice minister who defected from Gantz's party to new slate with Tel Aviv mayor, resigns from government
Sa'ar succeeds in disrupting Bennett's plans while cunningly dismantling Likud ■ Gantz and Kahol Lavan have totally lost their value ■ Netanyahu's pawn Elkin effectively demolishes the PM
The seepage from Netanyahu's Likud to Gideon Sa’ar’s party is starting to look a lot like a split. For now, Bennett is pushed to the sidelines
Facing rivals who will be hard to paint as left-wing, Netanyahu looks to be heading into an election campaign with his worst starting numbers in months
Kahol Lavan members have felt that their leader is starting to deteriorate, and on Sunday they understood the dimensions of the humiliation and disgrace that Gantz has wrought upon them
Negotiations to stop Knesset from dissolving are centered around the powers of the Justice Ministry and whether to grant Netanyahu's party veto on its decisions
Gantz will be delighted to see Netanyahu suffer defeat at the hands of the former Likudnik ■ Sa’ar throwing his hat into the ring left Naftali Bennett stripped of a strategy
Netanyahu's Residence tried to divert attention from lawmaker Yifat Shasha-Biton joining Gideon Sa'ar's party by naming a new police commissioner. It didn't work
For several months the prime minister's rival has been secretly spinning his web. Each week more advisers, lawmakers, mayors, key activists joined the secret circle
In contrast to Bibi's sycophants, Sa’ar is a true Likudnik, perhaps the last one
As Kahol Lavan crumbles and Gantz rules out renewed partnership with Lapid, Netanyahu’s opponents are looking for another avenue for investment
Netanyahu and the alternate PM Gantz made an effort to hide their mutual loathing as they take another turn on the Israeli election merry-go-round, and they can't blame the coronavirus crisis anymore
Yair Golan vows to 'silence and suppress' voices pushing to turn his party in a Jewish-Arab alliance: 'This could be the Israeli left’s big opportunity'
The Knesset will dissolve, the budget won’t pass, and the country will sink into an economic abyss, because Netanyahu never meant to give Gantz his rotation
And he’s getting there with the help of Arab politician Mansour Abbas, who with his fondness for religious law has something in common with the Jewish far right