Israelis decide not to divide Jerusalem
(February 7: 18:30) Likud Knesset Member Ruby Rivlin says the election results overwhelmingly show that Israelis are not prepared to accept any right of return for Palestinians or a division of the capital city.
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Promises promises...
(February 7: 12:30) Diaspora Affairs Minister Rabbi Michael Melchior is calling for the One Israel party to join a national unity government and doubts the new prime minister can fulfill all his election promises without one.
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It's been a hard day's night
(February 7: 04:15) One final summary of the night's events, with 99 percent of votes cast.
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Post editorial: Barak on Barak...and Sharon
(February 7: 02:30) The Jerusalem Post's Editor-in-Chief Jeff Barak talks about how the paper predicted Sharon's landslide victory, was caught off guard by Barak's
resignation, and believes the key to a unity government lies with Shimon
Peres.
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Sharon's first English address
(February 7: 02:15) Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon addresses the world's media (poor audio quality).
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Reactions 'down under'
(February 7: 02:00) Vice President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Jeremy Jones, talks about how the news of the elections is being received in Oz.
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What next?
(February 7: 01:40) We take a look at the technicalities. When does Ariel Sharon become prime minister? What does Ehud Barak do next?
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Sharon's victory: A platform for unity
(February 7: 01:00) Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon calls for unity and outlines his vision for Israel.
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Palestinians ponder Israel's new PM
(February 7: 00:45) The Jerusalem Post's Palestinian affairs correspondent, Lamia Lahoud, brings you the Palestinian reaction, from the official response to the talk on the streets.
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Barak surprises supporters
(February 7: 00:35) Supporters feel like they've lost their leader, reports The Jerusalem Post's Dan Izenberg, who's covering Labor campaign headquarters.
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US President Bush is reaching for the phone...
(February 7: 00:35) ...to congratulate Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon on his victory. The Jerusalem Post's Washington correspondent, Janine Zacharia, looks at how the White House will deal with Israel's new PM.
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Sharon: The first 100 days
(February 7: 00:35) Tom and Charley open their Grill Room to taste the first 100 days of Ariel Sharon, Israel's new prime minister.
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Election day women
(February 7: 00:25) A group of women gathered in Jerusalem for a different celebration on election day. They chose poetry and songs as their weapons.
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Military success, political failure
(February 7: 00:10) Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Barak will remembered for his political inexperience, says The International Jerusalem Post's editor, Amotz Asa-el.
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Barak resigns
(February 7: 00:00) Prime Minister Ehud Barak announces his resignation as Labor leader and Knesset member.
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'Sharon has been given a chance to prove his mettle'
(February 6: 23:45) Yisrael Medad, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Shilo, speaks about his community's hopes and the faith they have placed in Ariel Sharon.
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Sharon: A critique
(February 6: 23:00) What type of prime minister will ex-general Ariel Sharon make?
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Ashrawi: Sharon not the man for the future
(February 6: 22:55) Palestinian Legislative Council Member Hanan Ashrawi offers her take on Likud leader Ariel Sharon's victory.
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Labor subdued, not surprised
(February 6: 22:45) The Jerusalem Post's Dan Izenberg, who's covering the Labor campaign headquarters, says the result was expected, but not the margin.
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MK Chazan: 'Fear and confusion' led Sharon to victory
(February 6: 22:45) Meretz Knesset Member Naomi Chazan tells the foreign press that Ariel Sharon's victory is a blow to the peace process. Josh Wander reports.
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Foreign media gathering
(February 6: 21:55) For the first time ever in an election, a special station has been set up in Jerusalem for foreign journalists to meet, greet and cover tonight's results. The Jerusalem Post's Jonathan Krashinsky is there.
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Victory today, unity tomorrow
(February 6: 21:55) Likud Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz says Likud leader Ariel Sharon will make a unity government his first priority.
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A 'political party'
(February 6: 21:45) Columnist Greer Fay Cashman hits the party scene and sounds as though she may have already been on the G&Ts.
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Sharon: Good guy, bad guy
(February 6: 21:25) More election satire and debate from Tom and Charley's Grill Room
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Voting and violence
(February 6: 21:05) Nearly 60 percent of Israelis have visited the polls by 9 pm, which is down by 10 percent from 1999. Meanwhile, tens of Palestinians have been injured today in clashes in the territories.
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Palestinian media: 'Sharon is an extremist'
(February 6: 21:00) Palestinian media expert Michael Widlanski takes a long hard look at how the Palestinian media has been covering the Israeli election.
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Only the unusual can save Barak now
(February 6: 20:45) The Jerusalem Post's political analyst, Sarah Honig, says Likud leader Ariel Sharon will be elected prime minister, unless there's a "kinky set of circumstances."
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Separate religion from politics
(February 6: 20:30) The chief rabbi of Efrat, Shlomo Riskin, is calling for rabbis to keep out of politics.
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'Dead people' are voting again
(February 6: 20:30) The Jerusalem Post's Knesset correspondent, Nina Gilbert, reports from the central elections committee headquarters, where election fraud has raised its' ugly head and the country records its' lowest-ever voter turnout.
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Painful moment of truth
(February 6: 19:25) Author Amos Oz attacks the electoral system for blocking Israeli prime ministers from re-election. Oz also thinks Israel's future lies in the hands of the Palestinian leaders.
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Voting with their guns
(February 6: 19:20) While Israelis go to the polls, IDF forces have been engaged in heavy clashes with Palestinians throughout the day and night. Margot Dudkevitch
has the details.
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Caught in the middle
(February 6: 19:15) Many Arab residents of east Jerusalem are sitting on the sidelines in this election, reports The Jerusalem Post's Etgar Lefkovits. Very few of them have the right to vote, and those who do are choosing to stay at home because of various pressures.
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Violence throws wrench into electoral process
(February 6: 18:30) Mordechai Taub, a senior member of the Likud Central Committee for Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, says the IDF has closed the tunnel road, which connects Gush Etzion to Jerusalem. Taub says the closure means the transfer of ballot boxes will be delayed.
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Barak's tremendous courage
(February 6: 17:00) Author and cultural icon David Grossman has come out in public support of the One Israel party, and is amazed by the Likud leader's simplicity and lack of reason.
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Landslide victory certain
(February 6: 15:45) Likud Knesset Member Meir Shitreet, a former finance minister, is sure he will get his old job back and predicts his party's victory will be larger than the polls project.
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Election 2001: Public perspectives
(February 6: 14:30) JPost Radio correspondent Josh Wander ventures out to the streets to size up public support for the candidates. You won't believe some of the unpredictable responses!
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No sign of an election
(February 6: 13:30) The Jerusalem Post's Northern correspondent, David Rudge, says that in Israeli Arab towns in the Galilee region, the election is conspicuous by its absence.
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Israeli Arab turnout is almost non-existent
(February 6: 13:00) Approximately 0.01% of the Israeli Arab population have exercised their right to vote so far. Daoud Kuttab, director of the Media Institute at Al Quds University in Ramallah, offers an explanation.
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Election 2001: Observations II
(February 6: 10:45) Jerusalem Post columnist and environmental reporter Liat Collins checks in on the election-day atmosphere pervading the city.
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Election 2001: Observations I
(February 6: 10:15) Jerusalem Post Radio correspondent Greer Fay Cashman reports on the mood among the voters this morning.
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'No men of G-d here'
(February 5: 22:45) A theological anarchist explains why he won't be voting in this election and why democracy is impossible in the Middle East.
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Pollster: Barak's in trouble
(January 31: 15:50) Hanoch Smith, director of the Smith Research and Consulting Institute, says the latest results show Israelis are voting against Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
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Binyamin Netanyahu: Exclusive interview
(January 31: 15:50) The Jerusalem Post's political correspondent, Gil Hoffman, talks to the former premier in this 30-minute special.
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Barak's last stand
(January 28: 11:30) Prime Minister Ehud Barak may yet pull a rabbit out of his hat, says The Jerusalem Post's political analyst, Sarah Honig.
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Shas: Barak hates Judaism and Israel
(January 24: 13:00) Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of the orthodox Shas party, has called on all his supporters to vote for the Likud leader as a biblical obligation. Meretz Knesset Member Yosef Paritzky says Shas no longer wants Israel to be a democracy.
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Election 2001: Arab vote still uncertain
(January 24: 11:00) Eli Rekhess, director of programs on Arab Politics at Tel Aviv University, says there is such a deep schism between Israeli Arabs and the Barak government, there is a good chance many will simply not vote at all.
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Ehud Barak wins 'big time'
(January 23: 17:30) Noy Biber, a student at Blich High School in suburban Tel Aviv, tells us why the student body voted overwhelmingly for Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
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Ehud Barak wins 'big time'
(January 22: 22:00) In a wide-ranging interview, Labor Knesset Member Elie Goldschmidt, Prime Minister Ehud Barak's campaign manager, explains why his man will win on February 6.
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Sharon's election bodes badly for Bush
(January 22: 17:10) CNN's senior political analyst, Bill Schneider, says the track record between American presidents and Likud prime ministers has always been problematic.
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Labor v. Likud: Hard talk
(January 22: 10:50) We join Knesset members as they go head-to-head in a Jerusalem Post sponsored debate.
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Meimad again threatens to leave One Israel
(January 21: 17:10) The dovish, orthodox Meimad party is at its breaking point after Prime Minister Ehud Barak's TV pledge to legalize public transport and shopping on Saturdays.
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Likud: We won't resort to slander
(January 21: 16:15) Ra'anan Gissin, senior advisor to Likud leader Ariel Sharon, says there is no point in entering into personal accusations during the election campaign broadcasts because Sharon intends to form a national unity government as soon as he is elected.
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Election 2001: Blank or Barak
(January 16: 17:00) The Mayor of Taiba, an Israeli Arab town, says casting a blank ballot is no good for the Arab sector.
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Election 2001: The heat is on
(January 16: 16:15) Hebrew University Professor Gadi Wolfsfeld says Israelis can expect to see a lot of campaign advertisements focusing on Likud leader Ariel Sharon.
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'Sharon's your man'
(January 11: 16:20) The Likud officially launches its candidate for premier, Ariel Sharon.
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'When I'm elected...'
(January 8: 19:00) Likud leader Ariel Sharon hit the campaign trail in Jerusalem's outdoor market today, convinced that he will be elected Israel's next prime minister on February 6th.
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One-fifth of Israelis expected to vote blank
(January 7: 17:55) According to the latest poll figures from the Geocartographia Institute, around 20 percent of voters will show their protest against both prime ministerial candidates on February 6 by registering a blank voting slip.
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Barak 'failed', Sharon 'will fail'?
(January 31: 12:30) Tune in to another Jerusalem Post hard-talk election debate, this time with Immigrant-Absorption Minister Yuli Tamir and Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert.
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Barak or Peres? The clock is ticking...
(January 31: 10:00) With less than 48 hours to go before Shimon Peres can take over from
Prime Minister Ehud Barak in the upcoming prime ministerial election,
The Jerusalem Post's political analyst, Sarah Honig, takes a closer look at the
options and how accurate those polls really are.
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Likud activist: Our election victory is not guaranteed
(December 28: 10:35) A leading Likud activist says voter apathy could play a major role in the prime-ministerial election.
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Peres for prime minister?
(December 19: 13:50) Former prime minister Shimon Peres has never yet won an election, but this morning announced that he is once again seriously considering running in the upcoming election. Meretz Knesset Member Naomi Chazan says that his success will be dependent on her party's support.
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Likud waits for Sharon to step down
(December 11: 17:25) Senior Likud activist Dr. Yossi Olmert says that Binyamin Netanyahu, if allowed to stand, would be the Likud party's best chance of overthrowing the current government.
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'It's good to be back'
(December 10: 22:30) Former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu talks about peace, the Palestinians, and why he thinks he'll be eligible to run in the coming election.
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Are Barak and Sharon the only options?
(December 10: 13:00) Mark Heller from the Jaffee Center at Tel Aviv University talks about who's on the menu from which the people have to choose.
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Livnat: There will be elections for the entire Knesset
(December 10: 00:30) Likud Knesset Member Limor Livnat says her party will make sure the election is not just for the post of prime minister.
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Is the direct election of the premier responsible for a political debacle?
(December 10: 00:05) We talk to the man responsible for the current electoral system.
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Shinui: Elections for all, not just PM
(December 9: 23:50) Leader of the secular, centrist Shinui party, Yosef (Tommy) Lapid, says there should elections for the entire Knesset.
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MK Raz: Barak is brave
(December 9: 23:45) Meretz Knesset Member Mossy Raz reacts to Prime Minister Ehud Barak's resignation.
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Barak to resign
(December 9: 21:45) Prime Minister Ehud Barak will submit his resignation tomorrow morning.
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Tom & Charley's Grill Room
Natan Sharansky
(January 25) The leader of the immigrants party Yisrael Ba'aliya talks tough about Prime
Minister Ehud Barak and offers praise for Likud leader Ariel Sharon.
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Tommy Lapid
(January 11) The head of the Shinui party strongly opposes the Likud-Shas alliance
but says his vote will not be influenced by it.
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