Archive for the ‘Israeli Election’ Category
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, looks beyond the "hard right wing" label the media use to describe Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu.
Writes Michaels: Overwhelmingly, journalists describe Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, whom Israeli President Shimon Peres has asked ...
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
In the Jerusalem Post, Gerald Steinberg, chairman of the Political Science Department at Bar-Ilan University and executive director of NGO Monitor, explores the often neglected art of post-election power building:
Post-election negotiations may be more important than the campaigns themselves, but in contrast to the detailed strategy involved in the latter, ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
David Weinberg, Director of the CIC Israel Office, is monitoring developments as Israeli Prime Minister designate Benjamin Netanyahu beings to build his cabinet:
Prime Minister designate Benjamin Netanyahu has begun to line up his ducks - key aides and cabinet members, even as coalition negotiations have just begun and remain murky. This ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University just released its Peace Index for Feb. 2008. Among the key findings:
Only a small minority of the entire Israeli public (17%) is satisfied with the results of the recent elections (43% are dissatisfied, 35% are in between, and the ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Editorials on the Israeli elections are starting to appear in Canada's daily newspapers. Opinion already ranges from the results being a total disaster for the peace process, to a vote that still reflects a moderate electorate.
The Toronto Star Feb. 12 editorial, "Israel's decisive tilt to the right", plays the "bad-for-peace" card to the ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Israelis awoke this morning to political gridlock. Neither Livni nor Netanyahu won a large-enough percentage of the vote to govern effectively. Either, or both, will be forced into a complicated, tenuous coalition reality where they serve as a minority partner in their own government.
Even the notion of a shared national ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
The Canada-Israel Committee this evening extended congratulations to Israel, the Middle East's only democracy, on the conclusion of their 18th Knesset elections.
"Every Israeli, from the Right to the Left, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian was empowered to participate in this election" said Moshe Ronen, National Chair of the CIC. "As citizens ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
It's an extremely tight race, but Ha'aretz reports: "Exit polls by Israel's three main television stations on Tuesday night showed Kadima as the leader in the 2009 general elections, with Likud coming a narrow second.
"Channel 1, Channel 2 and Channel 10 polling of voters as they left the ballot box ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
On a rainy election day, David Weinberg, Director CIC Israel office, reflects on the quiet - indeed sober - campaign.
It's been a blessedly short and remarkably quiet election campaign here in Israel, and now its time to vote. I went early in the morning, to avoid the lineups, and to get ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Here's a look at the Israeli election process, along with some great links, from Rachel Kaplan, a Shlicha (Emissary) of the Jewish Agency for Israel, currently working with Hillel in Toronto:
Gradually and quietly, almost without noticing, Israel reached its Elections Day. Over five million eligible voters will go to vote; any ...
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