As during the 2020 presidential elections in the US, the Israeli race is perceived as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's personality and stewardship of a nation brutalized by COVID-19.
No election campaign is complete without the Palestinian Authority trying to influence Arab candidates for the Israeli parliament. But that makes many Arab voters uneasy.
Naftali Bennett had reason to be pleased this week when polls showed that respondents who said they would be voting for Yamina were certain of their decision.
When you lead the election polls by a two-digit gap it can be challenging to convince your supporters that every vote counts.
Arab voters know campaign talk is cheap. No political party can realistically offer the Arab public an alternative without reserving a respectable spot on their Knesset slate for a member of the sector.
As the worst crisis Israel has ever seen drags on and the COVID death toll passes 5,000, politicians should stop thinking about the election and start thinking about the people.
With the addition of representatives of multiple sectors into the Likud's Knesset list and the alliance between radical Otzma Yehudit and Bezalel Smotrich's Religious Zionist Party, Netanyahu hopes to extract every single right-wing vote possible on Election Day.
Having realized his divisive rhetoric is pushing away voters and an end to the pandemic won’t be coming anytime soon, Netanyahu is shifting gears in his campaign.
Can Merav Michaeli redeem Israel's oldest political party and make it a force to be reckoned with again? Supporters are hopeful.
The prime minister knows that if he wants to stick around at the PM’s office for a few more years, he has to ensure Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionist party makes it into the Knesset. In recent days, the premier has done everything in his power to ensure that happens.