{"id":35683,"date":"2017-04-06T03:11:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T09:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=35683"},"modified":"2017-04-06T03:11:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T09:11:27","slug":"britney-spears-concert-spurs-postponement-of-labor-party-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/britney-spears-concert-spurs-postponement-of-labor-party-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears concert spurs postponement of Labor party leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) \u2014 Britney Spears is proving to be \u201cToxic\u201d to Israel\u2019s Labor party.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35684\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35684\" class=\"wp-image-35684 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0113-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 02:  Singer Britney Spears performs onstage during 102.7 KIIS FM's Jingle Ball 2016 presented by Capital One at Staples Center on December 2, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Kevin Winter\/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0113-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0113.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35684\" class=\"wp-image-35684 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0113-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 02:  Singer Britney Spears performs onstage during 102.7 KIIS FM's Jingle Ball 2016 presented by Capital One at Staples Center on December 2, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Kevin Winter\/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0113-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0113.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-35684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Britney Spears performing at the Jingle Ball concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Dec. 2, 2016. (Kevin Winter\/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Leaders of the left-wing party announced Wednesday that they are postponing the planned leadership primary on July 3, the same day of the American pop singer\u2019s concert in Tel Aviv, over fears that voters would have trouble getting to the polls \u2014 including a key site near the concert venue, Yarkon Park. The elections were scheduled for the following day.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the problems caused by traffic congestion, the party indicated it would have trouble hiring security guards and ushers since many of those available would be working the concert.<\/p>\n<p>Postponing the primary will also allow party members to both vote and attend the concert, Labor leaders told the Israeli media.<\/p>\n<p>The current party head, Isaac Herzog, who is running for re-election in a field of at least eight candidates, reportedly has no plans to attend the concert.<\/p>\n<p>The concert is part of Spears\u2019 summer Asian tour promoting her album \u201cGlory,\u201d which was released last year. It is her first tour outside the U.S. since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Spears, 35, has sold more than 240 million albums, DVDs and singles since her debut in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>In the election, if no candidate passes the 40 percent threshold, a runoff is scheduled for July 13.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Britney%20Spears%20concert%20spurs%20postponement%20of%20Labor%20party%20leadership\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,7137],"tags":[8429,8781,8790,8795,7332,1744,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35685,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683\/revisions\/35685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}