Israel’s municipal elections will take place on January 30 as planned, Interior Minister Moshe Arbel announced on Tuesday after he had been asked to postpone them because of the war. The elections were supposed to have taken place on October 31 but were pushed off following the outbreak of the Swords of Iron War … Read more
Religious Zionist Party (RZP) MK Ohad Tal started collecting signatures from other MKs on Tuesday for a bill that would postpone the municipal elections again. The elections, which were supposed to take place toward the end of October, were delayed until January 30, when the Swords of Iron War began on October 7. The … Read more
In her early 40s, Anat Mufkadi has a full plate: married to a rabbi who is also a tour guide, with four children and a master’s degree in political science from Tel Aviv University, she is CEO of ANU. ANU, an apolitical nonprofit established in 2013, promotes a more inclusive and equitable society; identifying … Read more
Toward the opening of the 2013 school year, Yossi Saidov, then chairman of the Gonenim local council and today a candidate for the local council’s board, was fed up. After months of fruitlessly asking the municipality to paint a pedestrian crossing on one of the neighborhood’s smallest streets, Saidov gathered some children and together … Read more
