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Israel’s election is being cast as a historic showdown - but four trends tell a different story

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: From rivalries within political blocs to polls that shape voter choices and coalition red lines, four trends reveal the challenges facing Israel’s next government.

|ByHERB KEINON
‘Politicians should leave room for compromise before the election, rather than making absolute promises they may have to abandon afterward for the good of the country.’ Will the challenge of building Israel’s next coalition government fall to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Gadi Eisenkot?
Palestinians hurl rocks at Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank town of Hebron October 16, 2000.

On this day: Second Intifada triggered following Ariel Sharon's visit to Temple Mount

In total, more than 1,000 Israelis were killed by Palestinian terrorist attacks, which included suicide bombings, shootings, stabbings, and car ramming.

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN
Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, July 6, 2026

Will Israel's 2026 election represent Liberman’s swan song? – opinion

The chair of Yisrael Beytenu still has one more goal to achieve before he bids farewell to his illustrious political career.

|ByORI WERTMAN
Shaul Mofaz at a Kadima rally, 2009.

'My Israeli Journey': Shaul Mofaz recounts battles, politics, and family - review

My Israeli Journey one of the most accurate, non-academic records of the years in which Mofaz served in the IDF and in his post-army service to his country.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

The Temple Mount is in our hands

If something isn’t working, it can – and should – be changed, and then the new order will become entrenched. We’ll have a new status quo.

JULY 19, 2017ByGILAD SHARON
Border Police at sight of terror attack on Temple Mount July 14

Putin: Israel's Sharon warned me against trusting anyone in Middle East

Vladimir Putin reveals all in a new Showtime documentary airing this week.

JUNE 15, 2017ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Russian President Vladimir Putin

‘Secrets did not die’ with former PM adviser

Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, tended to send Segal to defend them on television whenever scandals broke.

JUNE 7, 2017ByGIL HOFFMAN
Dov Weisglass (L) looks on as former prime minister Ariel Sharon speaks at the Madison Hotel in Washington in 2002

‘Israeli-Palestinian peace isn't a real estate deal’

Gilad Sharon, the son of the late PM Ariel Sharon, doesn't believe that the current state of affairs allows for a development of a potential peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians.

MAY 30, 2017ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
The sons of former prime minister Ariel Sharon, Gilad (L) and Omri (2nd L)

Our World: The agenda for the Trump-Abbas meeting

Israeli society was nearly torn apart in the one year and eight months between Sharon’s surprise announcement and the expulsion of Gaza’s Jews in August 2005.

APRIL 25, 2017ByCAROLINE B. GLICK
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas arrives to delivers a speech during the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 27, 2017 in Geneva

Netanyahu response to UN vote isolating Israel, Ariel Sharon confidant says

Dov Weisglass slams Netanyahu's moves to punish states that voted for anti-settlement resolution.

DECEMBER 27, 2016ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Dov Weisglass (L) looks on as former prime minister Ariel Sharon speaks at the Madison Hotel in Washington in 2002

Sharon letter to Saudi king revealed as crown prince slams Israel at UN

A framed copy of the letter was presented to the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Museum in Or Yehuda at a ceremony earlier this month.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016ByHERB KEINON
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon addresses the nation on the disengagement from Gaza, August 15, 2005

When politicians get sick: Is Hillary Clinton's health like Ariel Sharon's?

“Netanyahu can’t get away with taking a two-week vacation. But if the American president doesn’t, his people will be worried.”

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016ByGIL HOFFMAN
US Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers the keynote address at the Brookings Institution Saban Forum at the Willard Hotel in Washington December 6, 2015.

Ariel Sharon refused to go to bomb shelter on 9/11

Sharon remained calm as he prepared for any eventuality of what could happen to Israel following the attacks in the US.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016ByGIL HOFFMAN
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon talks with New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as they look out over the wreckage of the World Trade Center attacks site in 2001, in New York.

Ariel Sharon's son joins Likud

Former PM's son Gilad may be planning Knesset run.

AUGUST 18, 2016ByGIL HOFFMAN
The sons of former prime minister Ariel Sharon, Gilad (L) and Omri (2nd L)