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First poll since Netanyahu’s speech still shows Zionist Union leading

Herzog’s party on 24 seats, Likud on 23, but 47% want PM to continue for another term

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Haredi group decries far-rightist joining with Yishai

Ultra-Orthodox activists circulate flyers critical of Baruch Marzel, say late Shas leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef would not approve of merger

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Friday surveys show Likud and Zionist Union neck and neck

Ahead of March 17 elections, new polls still indicate Netanyahu better placed than Herzog to form coalition

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Israel’s hottest politicians ranked

Yair Lapid and Ayelet Shaked crowned best-looking lawmakers, Netanyahu doesn’t make it past the electoral threshold

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Zionist Union grabs 3-seat edge over Likud in new poll

Separate survey shows Israelis don’t think Herzog government would change peace prospects, but half say it would improve ties with US

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Far-right candidate indicted for altercation with Palestinian

Baruch Marzel of Yachad Knesset list accused of brawling with Hebron resident in 2013

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From annexation to right of return: What the parties say about the Palestinians

Bennett wants Greater Israel, Liberman wants to redraw the borders, Lapid wants a divorce, Kahlon wants a two-state reality. And what does Netanyahu want?

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Is Netanyahu about to lose the election?

Its campaign has grown frantic, its activists are moribund. And though it would be wrong to bury the ruling Likud party, its supporters are right to be worried

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Stump and grind

Likud throws a Hail Mary asking voters who decamped to smaller factions to come home, as parties and the newspaper writers who love them make their final pitches

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Hamas and Fatah have clear, opposite interests in Israel’s election outcome

Ordinary Palestinians couldn’t care less about the March 17 vote. Not so the rival West Bank and Gaza leaderships

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Netanyahu: Herzog would give Palestinians capital in east Jerusalem

At right-wing rally in Tel Aviv, prime minister again calls on Kulanu leader Kahlon to accept finance minister post

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Prominent rabbi skips vote, boding ill for ultra-Orthodox parties

Lithuanian community leader Shmuel Auerbach declares he will not be voting, a move that could be emulated by his 30,000 followers

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Despite poll battering, Jewish Home party defiantly upbeat

Amid 4 seat decline, party official says ‘supporters came to the rescue of others to ensure an overall right-wing win’

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Over 235,000 votes thrown in trash

Between disqualified ballots and votes for parties that did not make the threshhold, most notably Yachad, some 5.5 percent of voters won’t have their voices count

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Petition urges PM to nix Deri over criminal past

Over 11,000 signatories protest Shas leader returning to ministerial post due to his bribery conviction during previous stint

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At Yitzhar, heartland of settler extremism, hostility to State of Israel is...

Spokesman condemns firebombing murder of Palestinian baby, won’t apologize for whichever ‘lunatic’ carried it out

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Rabbi pins Henkin killings on divine retribution for gay parades

Spiritual leader of failed political party Yachad tells memorial event, attended by children of murdered couple, that ‘immoral acts’ caused wave of terror, Israeli deaths

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Most British Jews find Israel’s approach to peace harmful, new study shows

According to Yachad UK-funded survey, nearly a quarter would support sanctions on Israel if it would pressure government to make concessions to Palestinians

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Eli Yishai said in talks to join Kulanu party

Former Shas leader denies negotiations are taking place, as does Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon

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Top rabbi blames garage collapse, rocket explosion on divine anger

Rabbi Meir Mazuz, head of Tunisian Jewry in Israel, says God’s unhappiness over desecration of Shabbat is cause of recent disasters

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