Public representative Sheila Weinberg made history on Wednesday as the first transgender representative to be elected as a city council member in Israel, according to Israeli media. Weinberg, 65, will be serving as a city council member in the town of Kiryat Tivon, southeast of Haifa. She is a mother of two and also … Read more
IDF soldiers have been voting in the municipal elections throughout the last week and will reach their peak as the rest of the country goes to vote. Throughout Election Day, around 570 polling stations will be opened in various IDF positions, including conflict zones, with the southernmost station located in Eilat and the northernmost … Read more
Voters throughout Haifa lined up Tuesday to vote in the municipal elections, with the 31 seats on the city council and the Mayor’s Office on the line. There are a few candidates running in the mayoral race. To win, they need 40% of the vote in the election, if this fails, the vote goes … Read more
After two postponements due to the ongoing war, municipal elections are set for Tuesday, February 27, in 241 cities and municipalities. Also due to the war, the upcoming local elections have garnered minimal media attention. In the 14 locales whose residents were evacuated, elections will not be held. “Because of the challenging circumstances, the … Read more
The IDF has opened 12 polling stations throughout the Gaza Strip and the border with Lebanon to allow soldiers to vote in the upcoming municipal elections, to be held for civilians on Tuesday, February 27. Soldiers are already able to vote, and will be able to until polls close in the rest of the … Read more
Hanania Ben-Shimon is the reservist who killed one of the terrorists in the attack near the A-Za’ayem checkpoint near Ma’ale Adumim on Highway 1 on Thursday. On Friday morning he published a post in which he updated that his condition is improving and used the platform to send a personal message. בוקר טוב, אני … Read more
Senior members of both parties in the US House of Representatives and Senate are certain that a $14.1 billion aid package for Israel’s war effort will arrive quickly, despite it being a part of a wider US foreign aid bill currently stuck in Congress, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana (Likud) said to The Jerusalem Post … Read more
A plan to hold a largely declaratory vote in Israel’s parliament (the Knesset) against international unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state was canceled on Monday after the opposition party Yisrael Beytenu proposed a more hawkish declaration to oppose Palestinian statehood under any condition. The cancellation was an indication of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sensitivity … Read more
According to several surveys in the Israeli media in the past few weeks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slowly gaining more support – which he has lost since the October 7 massacre. Simultaneously, Benny Gantz’s National Union, which had surged in polls at the beginning of the war, is losing movement. According to poll … Read more
Until last week, it seemed as though nothing would be able to awaken the city’s residents’ interest in the upcoming municipal elections. With a popular mayor and against the backdrop of the war, the general consensus has been that there are more important issues at the moment than the usual fights and mutual backbiting … Read more
