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35 shares Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai holds a press conference at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, on January 24, 2021 in Tel Aviv. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90) Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai says he will drop out of the March election race, after failing to agree on a merger with Labor ahead of tonight’s deadline to file party rosters. Once projected to win some eight seats in the polls, Huldai has seen support erode over recent weeks and is now not expected to pass the threshold to enter the Knesset. “I did my best,” he writes in a Facebook post. “Unfortunately we did not succeed.”

Follow Feb. 2, 2021 When Merav Michaeli became leader of the Labor Party last month – instantly boosting the left-wing party’s fortunes in the polls prior to the March 23 election – the internet immediately exploded with speculation as to which parties she might consider merging with.  A video from the 1990s quickly began making the rounds on Hebrew-language Twitter. In it, Michaeli and Yair Lapid (now leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party), emerge flustered and laughing from behind a sofa, she adjusting a visible bra strap, he buckling his belt. The video wasn’t fake: it came from ...