2021 Election

Central Elections Committee Head Orly Adas has several tricks up her sleeve to ensure the coronavirus pandemic does not undermine the integrity of the March 23 elections.

Balad, Ra'am, Ta'al, and Hadash launch independent campaigns, but Joint Arab List insiders say that does not necessarily indicate the alliance is crumbling.

Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch says that given the high COVID morbidity rate, holding the elections on March 23 as planned would be ill-advised. Pushing the vote requires special dispensation from the Knesset.

Lincoln Project founders Steve Schmidt, Rick Wilson, Stuart Stevens and Reed Galen were among the leaders of the effort to draw Republicans from Trump’s re-election effort centered on the president’s ethics and moral leadership.

In every election campaign, Netanyahu has tried to engineer the right-wing camp and grind his rivals on the Left to a pulp. This time, he appears closer to achieving that goal than ever.

"We’re obviously against MK Mansour Abbas, he’s from the Islamic Movement, he doesn’t recognize Zionism; what do he and I have in common?!" PM Netanyahu asserts.

The most notable insight to come out of the 2021 elections campaign so far is that major and minor parties alike have realized the power of the Arab electorate.

“Join us in building a strong, ethical alternative leadership,” Ron Huldai says. Dani Dayan, Israel’s consul general in New York and former head of the Yesha Council, joins Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope party.

Channel 12 News predicts that if all center-left parties merged, their slate would win 28 seats while Likud would lead with 30 mandates. Seven small parties not expected to cross the four-seat electoral threshold.