Results for “Knesset”

… rules again, with a single vote for party and Prime Minister — Arik and the Likud won resoundingly. They doubled their Knesset seats, to 38. Labor, now with only 19 seats, against turned to Shimon Peres, as interim party leader. I didn’t miss the political limelight. But by mid...

…oth to the settlement leaders and to a pair of the most prominent counter-protesters, the peace activist Uri Avneri and Knesset member Yossi Sarid. The event went off without major incident. But the next day, Davar, the venerable Labor newspaper I’d first read as a child in Mishm...

…munity dead. As an official inquiry would later conclude, there was blame on all sides. A number of Arab members of the Knesset had played a part in inciting the violence. Yet the police had been unprepared, and they had used excessive force. As I said publicly before the electio...

…irect appeal to the anger over the stabbing of Helena Rapp, was “Get Gaza out of Tel Aviv!” Labor ended up gaining five Knesset seats, and now had 44. The Likud lost eight and was left with only 32. That meant that my last three years as chief of staff would be with Rabin back a...

…head of Labor. This next election would be the first held under a new set of rules. Instead of merely choosing lists of Knesset candidates, Israelis would cast two 283 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028131

…° in Kuwait. Israel: While recent elections kept Netanyahu’s Likud party in the lead by winning 31 of 120 seats in the Knesset, the new centrist party Yesh Atid’s ability to win 19 seats under the leadership of Yair Lapid garnered all the attention. The results generated media d...

… away, in January 2013, I confided to Nili, and then to my closest aides, that I was not going to run for a seat in the Knesset. Israeli military action against Iran 429 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011900

… for comment. Most responded like weathervanes, going with the prevailing wind, which was gusting against me. But three Knesset members dissented. One was Ori Or, a friend even before we’d both gone into the army, and who had now joined Labor. The other two were leading members o...

…ng those on the left of Labor behind the plan, this election campaign was going to be a lot tougher than in 1999. Since Knesset members weren’t running for their seats, the Labor machine lacked its usual incentive put up posters, knock on doors, or get out the vote. Arik, however...