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Britney Spears concert causes postponement of Labor party leadership vote

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April 5, 2017
Britney Spears performing at the Jingle Ball concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Dec. 2, 2016. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia

Oops, she did it again: Britney Spears is playing her first-ever concert in Israel on July 3. If you’re wondering why this is relevant to Kafe Knesset, well, let’s just say that that fact is “not that innocent,” because July 3 was also the planned date of the Labor leadership primary. The party that tends to have a “Toxic” relationship with its leaders decided to reschedule the vote because of Britney’s show. Not that many of Labor’s elderly members are actually expected to attend the concert, but Tel Aviv goes into “Crazy” gridlock when there is a concert, and since Tel Aviv is where many left-wing voters – including party leader Isaac Herzog – reside, they’ll have a problem getting to the polls… So now, Herzog will ask Labor members, “From the Bottom of [His] Broken Heart,” to make him “stronger than yesterday” and elect him as leader “Baby One More Time” on July 5. 

Read today’s entire Kafe Knesset here [JewishInsider]

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