Livni taking seven Kadima members for her new party
Seven Kadima members are breaking away to join former party leader Tzipi Livni in her new Hatnuah party.
Seven Kadima members are breaking away to join former party leader Tzipi Livni in her new Hatnuah party.
Tzipi Livni has reentered Israeli politics at the head of a new left-of-center political party.
Polls will remain open past midnight in Likud Party primary voting following computer malfunctions at several polling stations.
Speaking at Columbia Law School, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the Likud an “extreme right-wing party” and suggested that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should have better relations with the White House.
A new poll of Israeli voters indicated Kadima may not make Israel’s voting threshold of two percent in the upcoming elections.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kicked off his re-election campaign on Monday, saying Israel had new unspecified \”capabilities\” to act against Iran\’s nuclear threat, an issue he said he had placed at the heart of the global debate.
More than half of all donations made to Israeli politicians’ campaigns over the past two years came from overseas contributors.
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has just received a slap-on-the-wrist sentence in a corruption case, is considering staging a political comeback in an election early next year, a former aide said on Wednesday.
For the second time in just two months, the Israeli political universe was upended when Shaul Mofaz’s Kadima Party voted to quit Israel’s governing coalition.
The Kadima party will likely leave Israel\’s government coalition after negotiations with Likud over a universal draft bill broke down.