The Israeli elections are just a few days away and it’s time for Israelis to finally make up their minds on who to vote for. The campaign season has been short yet intense and full of drama, including incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial speech before Congress. Yet all along the polls have held steady in showing a tight race between the Zionist Union on the left and Netanyahu’s Likud party on the right. Now many political pundits in Israel are saying they expect Netanyahu to return as head of the next government even though they also are predicting that rival Labor leader Isaac Herzog might win more seats in the Knesset. This is because most of the other smaller parties who would sit in a coalition government prefer Netanyahu as prime minister due to his longer experience in handling the nation’s many security and foreign policy challenges. In any case, this has been a very close election and the political drama of piecing together a new government hasn’t even started yet. So what can we expect from Israeli voters when they cast their ballots next Tuesday? Will they defy the pollsters and return Netanyahu to power? Or will he and Likud be relegated to the opposition, while newcomer Herzog is given the reins of power? Could there be even a third option of a national unity government? And how much impact did Netanyahu’s speech to Congress have on the elections of 2015? Decision Time in Israel! That’s our focus this week here on Front Page Jerusalem. We’ll have one last look at the Israeli elections before voters go to the polls to choose a new government. We’ll be hearing from top Israeli political analysts on what to expect.
On today’s program we’re taking one last look at the Israeli elections before voters go to the polls this coming Tuesday. Will they put Benjamin Netanyahu back in power after his historic address in Congress? Or will Labor and the Left come out victorious this time. Here’s Front Page senior producer David
Parsons with an update and analysis on the hotly contested Israeli elections, featuring veteran Israeli pollster Rafi Smith andJerusalem Post chief political correspondent Gil Hoffman .
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Next week, Israeli voters will go to the polls to elect a new government. It has been a hard-fought campaign, with lots of drama and heated debate over the nation’s future. But soon the results will be in and it will be time to determine the winners, the losers and the also-rans. Polls have shown an extremely close race between incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud and his main rival on the left, Isaac Herzog of Labor. But in a strange twist, surveys in the last weeks of the campaign have shown most Israelis are ready for a change in leadership, yet they also still consider Netanyahu best suited to be prime minister. So what will be the verdict of the Israeli voters on Tuesday? Will Netanyahu be able to return as prime minister? Will he have to share power in a national unity government? Or did Herzog and his Zionist Union score an outright victory? And who were the other winners and losers in the Israeli elections of 2015? The Voters of Israel Speak! That’s our focus next week here on Front Page Jerusalem. We’ll have the results of next Tuesday’s elections in Israel and an initial analysis of who came out on top, and what it could mean for the nation in the months ahead.
The Israeli elections are just a few days away and it’s time for Israelis to finally make up their minds on who to vote for. The campaign season has been short yet intense and full of drama, including incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial speech before Congress. Yet all along the polls have held steady in showing a tight race between the Zionist Union on the left and Netanyahu’s Likud party on the right. Now many political pundits in Israel are saying they expect Netanyahu to return as head of the next government even though they also are predicting that rival Labor leader Isaac Herzog might win more seats in the Knesset. This is because most of the other smaller parties who would sit in a coalition government prefer Netanyahu as prime minister due to his longer experience in handling the nation’s many security and foreign policy challenges. In any case, this has been a very close election and the political drama of piecing together a new government hasn’t even started yet. So what can we expect from Israeli voters when they cast their ballots next Tuesday? Will they defy the pollsters and return Netanyahu to power? Or will he and Likud be relegated to the opposition, while newcomer Herzog is given the reins of power? Could there be even a third option of a national unity government? And how much impact did Netanyahu’s speech to Congress have on the elections of 2015? Decision Time in Israel! That’s our focus this week here on Front Page Jerusalem. We’ll have one last look at the Israeli elections before voters go to the polls to choose a new government. We’ll be hearing from top Israeli political analysts on what to expect.
Next week, Israeli voters will go to the polls to elect a new government. It has been a hard-fought campaign, with lots of drama and heated debate over the nation’s future. But soon the results will be in and it will be time to determine the winners, the losers and the also-rans. Polls have shown an extremely close race between incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud and his main rival on the left, Isaac Herzog of Labor. But in a strange twist, surveys in the last weeks of the campaign have shown most Israelis are ready for a change in leadership, yet they also still consider Netanyahu best suited to be prime minister. So what will be the verdict of the Israeli voters on Tuesday? Will Netanyahu be able to return as prime minister? Will he have to share power in a national unity government? Or did Herzog and his Zionist Union score an outright victory? And who were the other winners and losers in the Israeli elections of 2015? The Voters of Israel Speak! That’s our focus next week here on Front Page Jerusalem. We’ll have the results of next Tuesday’s elections in Israel and an initial analysis of who came out on top, and what it could mean for the nation in the months ahead.
