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Highest turnout since 1973 as Israelis cast ballots to decide Netanyahu’s fate

By RUTH EGLASH

(JTA) — JERUSALEM – Israelis turned out to vote in high numbers Tuesday, with some 44.9% of the country’s 7 million eligible voters having cast their ballots by...

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Who are the first-time voters who could sway Israel’s election?

By MICHELE CHABIN

(JTA) — JERUSALEM — On Oct. 27, Yael Chernyvsky, 18, from Ramat Hasharon in central Israel, plans to cast her ballot for the first time. 

“I’m voting...

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Israeli election: Likud largest party, but no clear path to governing coalition, exit polls show

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party edged out Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar in Israel’s national election on Tuesday, according to exit polls published as voting closed at...

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OP-ED: The war against the Jews in Judea and Samaria

By MELANIE PHILLIPS

(JNS.org) –The complexity of “settler violence” received dramatic illustration over the past week.

Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was injured on Oct. 16 during a violent...

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