2019 Israel elections

Legislation that would allow cameras at Israeli polling places likely won’t be ready for elections

A motion to shorten the time required before a Knesset vote is stuck in a parliament committee.

By Marcy Oster September 9, 2019 8:57 am

Israel’s Cabinet approves proposed legislation to allow cameras inside polling places

The proposed legislation championed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a way to prevent voter fraud in next week’s national elections would allow election observers to film inside polling places.

September 8, 2019 10:40 am

Ideas

Why American Jews should care about voter suppression in Israel

Every friend of Israel must fight for the health of its democracy, writes the Israel director of the New Israel Fund..

September 6, 2019 3:19 pm

Zehut Party votes to approve deal with Netanyahu to drop out of elections

By Marcy Oster September 1, 2019 3:12 pm

Far-right candidate takes party out of elections in agreement with Netanyahu

By Marcy Oster August 29, 2019 1:19 pm

Cameras banned from Israeli polling stations in decision targeting Likud

By Marcy Oster August 27, 2019 11:03 am

Israel’s Supreme Court bars 2 far-right candidates from running for Knesset

By Marcy Oster August 26, 2019 8:07 am

Israel airstrike in Iraq is 1st in 4 decades

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 23, 2019 3:51 am

Reform leader Gilad Kariv wants to be the first non-Orthodox rabbi in Israel’s parliament

By Sam Sokol August 22, 2019 1:09 pm

Avigdor Liberman’s right-wing party teams with main rival of Netanyahu in bid for extra Knesset seat

By Marcy Oster August 20, 2019 11:32 am

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