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 […]
Category: Election 2015
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 […]
Election roundup Wednesday 21 January 2015: Part 1
It’s been a long time since I wrote an election update so there’s a lot to say. I’m going to split this one into parts. Part 1 will discuss party lists, Part 2 will talk about candidate rows and part 3 will deal eith anything else. Anyway, here’s part 1. Party Lists First off, most […]