Posts Tagged ‘elections’

I get asked this very question online all the time these past few days. Everyone is sure that Tzipi Livni has won, but then why do so many Israelis believe that Netanyahu will be the next Prime Minister of Israel? Let’s try and shed some light on the situation. The Israeli parliament, i.e. the Knesset, [...]

We were waiting in the car today, for one of Ron’s after school lessons, when the boys began talking about the up and coming elections tomorrow. They were worried that they still hadn’t made up their minds about who to vote for (even though they know they still have to wait for over a decade [...]

And I still don’t know who to vote for… Pretty confusing this year, for me. I like Tzipi Livin, but that’s mostly my feminist bias there. In terms of pure ideaology, I should vote for Meretz, but is that vote going to be meaningful when everyone knows they don’t stand a chance at getting into [...]

Listening to the morning news just now, they mentioned that the Israeli political party of Shas has officially launched its elections campaign under the slogan of, how original, “Yes, we can!” Hilarious, really. Shas is the only political party in Israel that successfully runs under the ethnic card, playing on the rift between Ashkenazi and [...]