Danny Danon is a new MK in the Likud. He is one of the new MKs on the Likud list, and I have been nothing but impressed by what I have seen about him. Danon has turned to the public, using the Internet and his website, as a way of connecting the people with the Knesset. He knows that people have man...

Israel seems to specialize in internal domestic drama and instability.  Today is no exception.  Wherever you look within the government there is disarray, dysfunction and general malaise.  The N. Y. Times reports that Bibi Netanyahu has failed to lure Ehud Bark and Labor into a broad based new ru...

The voting was the easy part. In Israel's Election system, we vote for Knesset, parliament, Members but not Prime Minister, not the executive. The elected MK's then, post-election, wheel and deal to form a government. That's when the fun begins. It's fun for them I guess, since the big prizes go to ...

Even though Labor MKs have been boasting that they are not afraid to enter the opposition, they have been increasing the pressure on Livni to include them in the government. That, I believe, is how one should interpret statements by the Labor Party to the media, that the faction will not recommend L...

A week after voting, and it’s been quite a little horse-trading affair, with at least one medium-sized surprise - hard-line nationalist party Yisrael Beiteinu and their 15 seats are still in play. They have an interesting future, but for now are relishing their potential king-maker role. Here ...

The media keeps telling us that because Kadima got a few more votes, equalling one more Knesset seat than the Likud, it means that the people chose Tsippi Livni to be the next Prime Minister of Israel. The Israeli political system is not all that simplistic. We have neither a two nor a three party "...

Jimmy Carter: Include Hamas in Israel-Palestinian peace talks Likudniks don’t scare former United States president Jimmy Carter. On the contrary: The electoral turnaround of 1977 that brought them to power for the first time enabled Carter to be inscribed in the history books as the leader who...

The Kadima Party of moderate Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni kept its slight lead over Benjamin Netanyahu's hawkish Likud in final election results announced Thursday, but the hard-line bloc in Israel's new ......

Hey, remember that time in 2005 when Tom Friedman said that a Netanyahu-led Likud would electorally implode? And that a Sharon-led center would evacuate Gaza so the Palestinians could turn it into Dubai? Good times: Why, you ask? Because the Likud under Bibi, and without Ariel Sharon, will be free t...

Isreali National News is reporting that Likud has offered Kadima a number of cabinet positions, in order to form of a government together: Senior aides in the Likud party said late Wednesday that chairman Binyamin Netanyahu has offered Kadima two senior Cabinet positions in exchange for its joining ...