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Clearly, it's a strategy, and one which obviously rings true with the voters Smotrich is looking to bring back home.

As the activist group described it: "The street names were changed in response to the failed government policy against Hamas and the terrorist organizations"

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Netanyahu said some right-wing politicians are planning to recommend to President Rivlin another candidate from the Likud to form the next government.

The Civil Administration’s Higher Planning Council in Beit El approved several major plans for Judea and Samaria.

If the campaign succeeds in luring in Arab votes at the expense of the Joint Arab List, the party expects to receive about two complete mandates from Arab voters.

Smotrich is right, so we score this round in his favor, but with an asterisk, because, hey, he knew what he was doing last night.

According to the agreement between the United Right and the Likud, United Right has pledged to recommend Netanyahu to President Rivlin as the next Prime Minister.

"These circumstances do not justify granting a restraining order," wrote judge Michal Sharvit.

Liberman said he would prefer someone other than Netanyahu as a Likud candidate for prime minister. 

Look at the over-effeminized Ayelet Shaked leaning against the broad shoulders of General Benny Gantz, as a lechery Avigdor Liberman is staring at her upper body.

The survey shows that the Israeli Jewish public is solidly rightwing, since, with Liberman, the rightwing representation in the Knesset stands at 70%.

In the interview, Liberman said, "I believe that Yuli Edelstein is a personality who can lead the party."

Emma asks sheepishly: "Can you donate $5 to make sure we can make the Occupation a central issue in the next debates?"

On the morning after that tense game of chicken between Ben-Gvir and United Right, it has become clear that refusing to accept Otzma's demands was not a United Right failure, it was their strategy.

"He (Netanyahu) has nothing to do with the right, he promotes only two principles: his own ruling with God's grace and his cult of personality."

As Efrat inaugurates a beautiful new promenade, the town is becoming the go-to settlement community ahead of the upcoming elections.

The candidate for Prime Minister addressed the elephant in the room, his fellow Blue&White leader Yair Lapid, who is universally loathed by the Haredi public.

"For the first time, we are taking responsibility and formulate strategic government policy regarding Area C after 10 years of only Arab strategy."

Melinda Katz is no stranger to narrowly-decided primaries. In 1998, she lost the primary race for Chuck Schumer's 9th congressional district to Anthony Weiner by 285 votes.

It is important to note that without the Otzma Yehudit votes – estimated at 70,000 – the party of Rafi Peretz and Bezalel Smotrich would not have crossed the threshold in the April elections.

Elections Canada was ordered to respond to the court's ruling by August 1.

In 2018, Navalny, then leader of the Progress Party, was barred from running for Russia's presidency.

With the August 1 deadline nearing fast, the four Arab forced-partners will have to come up with a slate, or suffer even greater rejection by their voters.

"We agreed that in deference to our national responsibility and concern for a right-wing government and the religious-Zionist [sector] Ayelet will lead the Union of Right Wing Parties.”

Dendias said there are no meetings with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu “for now.”

Since 2009, offshore oil and gas fields in the Mediterranean have been the subject of territorial disputes between Turkey on one side and Greece, Cyprus and Israel on the other.

Meretz receives only four seats out of the first 11 slots of the Democratic Camp, despite the fact that Meretz is the main party and the supposed leader of the new union.

The Deadline for submitting lists for the September 17 election is Thursday evening, August 1.

Running separately, the four parties won 10 seats in April 2019, three seats fewer than they won in Israel’s national elections in March 2015 when they ran together.

Too inclusive a union might actually cost the bloc some votes, because the purists in each section of the public to the right of Likud might opt to stay home if they're turned off by this or that partner.