Elections

Matthews admired the late President Shimon Peres, but despised PM Benjamin Netanyahu and lumped him together with “bad guys” like Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“It is obvious that settlement, occupation and apartheid have won the Israeli elections."

"If we have to bring in MKs from the opposite camp, we will certainly change the law so that no sanctions are imposed on them," MK Zohar said.

"We went through every city, neighborhood by neighborhood, we plowed through the country."

Support from Klobuchar and Buttigieg could add a boost to the energy Biden showed this weekend in his South Carolina primary win.

Benjamin Netanyahu has succeeded in reversing the trend that began last April with the rise of Benny Gantz's Blue&White

All 16 coronavirus quarantine stations were busy and by the time the special polls had closed, a majority quarantined voters had cast their ballots.

The elections will have a significant role in how the Deal of the Century gets implemented.

The 6,453,255 eligible voters will go to the 10,631 ballots across the country and cast their vote for one of the 30 parties running for the Knesset.

Established in 2006, Im Tirtzu's stated mission is to renew "Zionist discourse, Zionist thinking and Zionist ideology to ensure the future of the Jewish nation and the State of Israel."

On Sunday, MDA members were briefed on running the Central Election Committee's special poll booths

“We don’t want Sanders here at AIPAC, and not in Israel. Anyone who calls the Israeli prime minister a racist is a liar or an ignoramus, or a dangerous combination of the two,” Danon stated.

A day before elections, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria “will happen within weeks, two months at the most” if he wins.

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of the most important Haredi poskim, on Sunday morning called on his followers not to vote for Ben-Gvir, because, as he put it: "Voting for him would be an act of madness."

Bernie Sanders is ahead with 56 delegates; Joe Biden is close behind him with 48; Pete Buttigieg 26; Elizabeth Warren 8; Amy Klobuchar 7.

The Likud responded Friday morning, saying: "Gantz fired his closest adviser Israel Bachar because he told the truth."

For many center-right Democrats, the above observation would mean only one thing: stay home on election day.

For the first time, Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit sinks below 1%, to 0.96%. Liberman is down to 6 mandates.

347 rabbis from across the US rejected Bernie Sanders “outrageous comment accusing AIPAC of fostering bigotry.”

By the way, from the pictures Becky sent me, it really doesn't look like there were 100 of them disrupting Biden. More like, I don't know, eighteen?

83% of the Walla respondents said they are not afraid of contracting the coronavirus at the voting booth.

On the embassy in Jerusalem, Bloomberg disagreed with Bernie's move idea: “It was done and you will have to leave it there,” he said.

The construction plan, which will effectively connect Ma'aleh Adumim to Jerusalem, was frozen by Netanyahu for years following international criticism that it would harm a prospective Palestinian state.

The special polling stations will be located away from the regular polling facilities, so as not to jeopardize the public health.

Several polls published in the last 24 hours project that Likud is in the lead with 35 seats, and Blue and White is right behind with 34 seats.

LGBT citizens generally have limited or highly restrictive rights in most parts of the Middle East, and are targets of violence in others.

This year, it would be difficult for Democratic presidential candidates to attend the AIPAC conference even if they don't wish to boycott it: the conference starts right on the Sunday leading up to Super Tuesday.

In November, Sanders could appeal to middle America in 2020 the very same way Trump appealed to them in 2016: an uncompromising outsider, ready to take on the establishment.

"If the 250,000 olim from English-speaking countries vote with their feet, they could tip the balance in this election."

Last week, Yamina was struggling to keep 7 seats in the polls, and now it finally succeeded in squeezing an eighth mandate from Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit's voters.