Israel’s three major news television stations tonight released exit poll results projecting that the country’s 19th Knesset will be dominated by parties clustering around the Israeli political center. The announcements come after months during which analysts predicted Israelis were preparing to vote into power the most right-wing government in the country’s...

Israelis head to the polls today to elect the country’s 19th Knesset, capping off three months of campaigning in which polls converged early and remained largely consistent in dividing votes between Israel’s center-right and center-left. Voters are expected, as they have been since incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced elections three...

The Palestinian Authority representative to Britain has declared that a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is unrealistic and that the goal should be “one state” which subsumes the Jewish State. Manuel Hassassian also indicated that forces hostile to Israel would be able to leverage declining U.S. support for Jerusalem –...

Israeli voters flocked to the polls in near-record numbers on Tuesday to elect the country’s 19th Knesset, registering turnout levels not seen since the country’s hotly contested 1999 election. By 6 p.m., 3.1 million Israelis, or 55.5 percent of the electorate, had cast their ballot. The voting comes after weeks...

Israel is the only Middle Eastern country to rate as “free,” according to the latest annual report by Freedom House, a top U.S.-based pro-democracy NGO. Israel is an anomaly in its region, with many of its neighbors receiving negative ratings, and Syria – until recently advocated by many foreign policy analysts...

As Israelis prepare to vote in the upcoming January 22 election, academics and pundits are increasingly skeptical of claims that the electorate has fundamentally moved to the right or left in either composition or ideology. Combining converging polling data with qualitative analysis, an article published in Tablet suggests that the...