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Jewish and Arab women unite to defy Bedouin voter suppression in Israeli election

Elections

On Tuesday, scores of women volunteers crisscrossed the dusty roads of Israel’s southern Negev desert to bring hundreds of Bedouin women from remote villages to their polling stations.

A supporter of the Israeli Likud party kisses an election campaign poster depicting Israel Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the market in Jerusalem.

For many Israelis, this election is all about Bibi

Two up close portraits of white men with short hair cuts competing for prime minister.

For the first time in a decade, Netanyahu has a serious challenger

Global Politics
A woman walks past a Joint Arab List campaign billboard. Four Arab-Israeli political parties have united for the first time, making the group the third-largest political faction in the Knesset.

Israel’s Arab parties make historic gains — will they actually matter?

Global Politics
Isaac Herzog, at rear in the center, poses for a selfie with supporters of his center-left Zionist Union at their party headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 16, 2015.

As Netanyahu campaigns on Iran, Israelis prepare to vote on their rent

Global Politics
Firebrand Israeli politician Stav Shaffir stands with Yitzhak Herzog, the chairman of Israel's Labor Party and fellow member of the Israeli parliament.

You’ve heard of hope and change, but you probably haven’t heard its new Israeli messenger

Global Politics

Stav Shaffir once wrote guidebooks and studied music. Now she’s a history-making politician known for her anti-corruption campaigning and scathing attacks on the Israeli right. Can she bring the “politics of hope” to Israel?

Sharon funeral

Where were all the mourners this weekend, as Ariel Sharon lay in state?

Global Politics

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fought in the country’s war of independence and was one of the dominant figures in Israel’s history. So why did so few people show up to pay their respects when his coffin was on display this weekend? Reporter Daniel Estrin has some possible reasons.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel "The Bulldozer" Sharon in Jerusalem August 9, 2005.

Controversial Israeli leader and former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died

Global Politics

Former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon has died after spending nearly eight years in a coma that followed a stroke. Sharon was highly controversial — both loved and hated. And few individuals in recent memory have had as much of an influence on the recent history of the Middle East.

Israeli election creates regional concerns

Israel’s political uncertainty has many in the wider Middle East wondering what the future holds.

Israel Elections: Netanyahu Expected to Win Re-election

Conflict & Justice

Israelis went to the polls Tuesday for a parliamentary election that’s not expected to change their country’s political leadership. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will most probably keep his job.