So Avigdor Liberman is Israel’s new Defence Minister, right..? Well, not yet. Negotiations are ongoing for the now-5-seat Israel Beiteinu to join the coalition, with Liberman getting Defence and some sort of vote on the use of death penalty in military courts which might or might not actually happen. But one big ‘red line’ remains. […]
Category: Israeli politics
Israel: What if there’s no coalition by tomorrow’s deadline?
The state of play Yesterday, Yisrael Beiteinu rejected the offer of joining the next Israeli Government. Likud immediately signed a coalition agreement with Shas, leaving them with 53 coalition members and only one open negotiation – with Naftali Bennett and Jewish Home. A couple of weeks ago, Bennett announced that handing over the Religious Affairs […]
Election Day 2015 – early afternoon update
I voted this morning a bit after 10, so now I have time to speculate about what’s happening out in the country. To be clear – I have no access to any exit polls or opnion polls since Friday — which is good, because it’s illegal to publicise them even if I did. Those last polls showed […]
Mergers and rumours – Election roundup Sunday 25 January 2015
I know I was writing about list mergers a month ago, and here I am doing it all again. Luckily there’s only one more week of this until the lists are filed and mergers are impossible, but until then there are plenty of rumours: For the past week there have been continual low-level rumours that […]
Election roundup Wednesday 21 January 2015: Part 2
(Part 1 here) Of course now, there are lists and candidates, there can be gaffes and dirt. There have already been a load of them. As soon as the Labour primary was finished, Bayit Yehudi put out images attacking the party’s candidates — running as the Zionist Camp — as being anti-Zionist, including quotes in […]