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Israeli political parties are barred by law from using the military in their campaign advertising

The lists are in and the parties have submitted their final candidates for Israel’s fourth election in two years.

90 shares A statue of an anti-Netanyahu demonstrator holding an Israeli flag seen on display at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv December 18, 2020, (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90) In March 2020, a record low of only eight parties were voted into the Knesset. In March 2021, it’s likely more parties will make it in, but it seems that just two cities will leave an outsized mark on the personnel and ideological makeup of the factions: Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. There has always been a tension between the country’s two largest cities: staid and conservative Jerusalem, laden with the weight of its spiritual...

BICOM 3rd February 2021 The Telegraph reports that hundreds of pro-democracy protestors were arrested last night in Istanbul. Protests have been ongoing for over a month, but this week they focused on the appointment of Melihu Bulu as the new rector of Boğaziçi University. Bulu was appointed in early January without any consultation with the university’s faculty or administration, which caused anger across the student population. Some students suggested Bulu is responsible for the escalation in violence towards the protestors. This week pr...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio In December, Livni was reported to be considering joining forces with Lapid in light of a flurry of high-profile departures from Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan party.  In the 2015 election, Livni's Hatnuah party joined with Labor to run as the Zionist Union, bringing five of the party's members to the Knesset. In 2019, Avi Gabbay, then chairman of Labor, unilaterally announced that he was breaking up the Zionist Union alliance. Hatnuah did not run in the three elections since then.  Earlier Monday, former Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon als...