Elections 2022

Religious identity remains Israel's strongest political divide, new IDI study finds

While the relationship between religion and political affiliation remained largely stable compared to the previous election, the study identified several notable shifts between 2021 and 2022. 

|ByLEO FEIERBERG BETTER
A voting box in the last Israeli election in 2015
Israeli journalist Amit Segal speaks during the Jabotinsky conference in Jerusalem, December 23, 2024.

Amit Segal claims Netanyahu offered him fourth spot on Likud list, 'any ministerial role' in 2022

Segal shared in the video that rather than a ministerial position, he had suggested to Netanyahu that Israel “needs to make some kind of judicial reform.”

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting, this past Sunday. Prime ministers who head large parties are required to succumb to policies that do not tally with the desires or needs of most citizens, says the writer.

Israel's electoral system only harms the country - opinion

The ballots cast by a mere 700,000 voters will now dictate the policies and conduct of the Israeli government in the years to come vis-a-vis its 10 million citizens and, indeed, the entire world.

|ByLIOR AKERMAN
PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid sit at the center of the front row, with MK Benjamin Netanyahu behind them, in a Knesset inauguration photo earlier this month. Herzog emphasized that Israelis are exhausted from infighting.

Israel elected a far-right government: Where does it go from here? - opinion

The people have voted, and Netanyahu will form his government in due course. 

|ByWALTER BINGHAM

Israel elections: Politicians enter final preparations as voting day nears

Labor on Saturday night held a rally in memory of former Labor leader and prime minister Yizhak Rabin, who was assassinated on November 4, 1995.

OCTOBER 29, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
A NEARLY-EMPTY Knesset plenum debates the dispersal of parliament, in June. In the upcoming election, be a strategic and principled voter, not a tactical and cynical one, says the writer.

Israel's Right enraged by Yesh Atid MK's Hitler comments

Ram Ben Barak said on Saturday that Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir's targeting of the High Court of Justice is reminiscent of Adolf Hitler.

OCTOBER 29, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
Committee Chairman Ram Ben Barak leads a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on November 15, 2021.

Yesh Atid MK on Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir: Hitler also rose to power democratically

National Unity's Sharren Haskel claims Gantz can bring in Likud defectors • Arab list asks for support of Jewish Left amid threshold fears

OCTOBER 29, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
L: Otzma Yehudit leader MK Itamar Ben Gvir. R: Likud leader, former-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Bezalel Smotrich, radical views do not represent religious Zionists - opinion

The idea that mainstream national religious rabbis would support a Meir Kahane follower would have been unthinkable only three years ago.

OCTOBER 28, 2022ByDANIEL GOLDMAN
MK BEZALEL Smotrich addresses the Knesset plenum. The unusual state of Israeli politics has highlighted the attraction of its extremities, says the writer

Yair Lapid to 'Post': Centrism will win through hope and optimism

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Extremists cannot run the country, and ‘a vote for Ben-Gvir is a vote against the IDF,’ Yair Lapid warns in a wide-ranging interview.

OCTOBER 28, 2022ByLAHAV HARKOV, YAAKOV KATZ
PRIME MINISTER Yair Lapid: Extremists are good at marching and shouting, but they’re not very good at running countries

Still no coalition likely, reveals final poll before Tuesday vote

Kara: Shaked offered me to quit for ministerial position • Netanyahu would use Ra’am ‘from outside’ – Gafni.

OCTOBER 28, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
Workers prepare ballot boxes for the upcoming Israeli elections, at the central elections committee warehouse in Shoham, before they are shipped to polling stations, October 12, 2022.

My Word: The Lions’ Den, bullets and ballots

The IDF operations send an important message of deterrence: Terrorists hiding in “safe houses” are not safe.

OCTOBER 27, 2022ByLIAT COLLINS
PALESTINIANS ATTEND the funeral of five terrorists belonging to the Lions’ Den group who were killed by Israeli forces in Nablus on October 25

Israel is going to vote for its future on Tuesday - comment

This election is about the type of country we want to have when celebrating three-quarters of a century of statehood and dreaming about the centenary.

OCTOBER 27, 2022ByYAAKOV KATZ
Arab women walk by a Bezalel Smotrich campaign poster in downtown Jerusalem on October 26, 2022.

Israel Elections: Bibi bloc teeters on edge of 61 seats - final polls

A number of polls found that Netanyahu may manage to form a majority government after the upcoming elections.

OCTOBER 27, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu at a Likud Party election event in the Maale Adumim neighborhood of Jerusalem, October 27, 2022.

The final Israel countdown

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Yaakov Katz and Lahav Harkov.

OCTOBER 27, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Workers prepare ballot boxes for the upcoming Israeli elections, at the central elections committee warehouse in Shoham, before they are shipped to polling stations, October 12, 2022.