Published: 30 March 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
ANALYSIS: Netanyahu ready to offer carrots but his sudden embrace of Arab Israelis has been too cynical and late to mend the democracy he has broken
Unlikely kingmaker Mansour Abbas is playing for the pot (Ynet)
SHIMRIT MEIR: Islamist party leader's gamble in splintering from Joint List paid off, and his right-wing suitors should realise that while he does prefer a conservative government, he is beholden to his voters and will go with highest bidder
Abu Yair’s Passover miracle: for Netanyahu, the Arabs are suddenly kosher (Haaretz)
Israel's Arab citizens are finally playing a role in coalition negotiations for a new government a step that seemed unimaginable not too long ago
VIDEO Palestinian leaders react to Israeli elections, with possible inclusion of Arab party Ra'am (Newschain)
Israel's election brought a surprise when the Islamist Ra'am party crossed the electoral threshold to enter parliament and its leader emerged Wednesday as a possible kingmaker. Mansour Abbas -- unlike other Arab political leaders before him -- has not ruled out joining an Israeli government
Israel’s democracy is broken, and Netanyahu is to blame (New York magazine)
Israel is often touted as the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel has certainly been the most functional democracy in the region throughout its history. But now, after four national elections in two years, none of which has produced a workable government, Israel is looking a lot less functional and a lot more like its neighbours
Young Haredim swept the vile Kahanists into the Knesset: it's great news for the Jews (Haaretz)
ANSHEL PFEFFER: When can it possibly be good that people chose hate? When a third of the voters for the racist 'Religious Zionism' party are from a new ultra-Orthodox generation that has finally rebelled
Bittersweet victory for Israel’s Gideon Sa’ar (AL-Monitor)
BEN CASPIT: Gideon Saar’s New Hope party garnered only six Knesset seats, but has managed to seriously destabilise the coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Cartoon: Guy Morad
