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the 79-year-old rabbi and Talmudic scholar

I decided to go with the Sephardi Orthodox party. I

and One Israel had the largest number of Knesset seats

issue-specific parties. The result: though I’d won

I fielded a stream of calls: from friends

where he had been murdered nearly four years

Bibi called. He had conceded publicly as soon

our election-night headquarters. My three brothers

each of us ready to put the best spin on

our determination to broaden our support beyond

we attended an event for Labor supporters north of Tel Aviv

I’d learned of cases where Peres volunteers outside polling

confident we’d done everything we could to put

” he said. “We must give Barak a chance.”

but that he’d concluded he wouldn’t get enough votes to reach

he said it had been one of the most difficult decisions

I wanted to start the process of assembling a coalition with a blank

at least in the first round. Yitzhik’s pulling out would help. But

with terms of a proposal under which Yitzhik would

with Yitzhik Mordechai’s 10 or 11 percent still likely to prevent