The heat was on Israel. All the world’s eyes were focused on our little country and what would happen if we dared to disagree with our major patron, the United States. Our PM’s speech last week was intended to deflect some of the searing heat headed our way. For a day or [...]
Nir Barkat wins in Jerusalem, beating out Haredi Knesset Member and Gimmel party hopeful Meir Porush.
Incumbents Huldai in Tel Aviv and Yahav in Haifa both won .
After 7 terms in Ashdod, Tzvi Tzikler lost to Yechiel Lasri.
In Bet Shemesh, three term incumbent Vaknin was ousted in favor of Sha”s party candidate, Moshe Abutbul. (Abutbul 52%, [...]
Moshe Abutbul is the Sha”s candidate for Mayor of Bet Shemesh. In the final day before the elections, RBS residents have gotten a steady flow of mail box goodies from Abutbul’s camp. Surprisingly, we’ve seen little from Vaknin or Lerner in the last day.
Today’s Abutbul flyer makes the case for the Anglo RBS community in [...]
Do posters equal voters? As I reported last week, Shalom Lerner has a huge “poster” lead in Ramat Bet Shemesh Aleph, and in Sheinfeld / Givat Sharet.
The battle lines have been drawn. Shalom Lerner has the majority of posters up in RBS. Aside froma couple for Sheetrit, and one for Abutbul, I think Lerner has [...]
Believe it or not, another five years has passed, and it’s time once again to elect a mayor in Bet Shemesh. The elections are set for November. Suprisingly, the current 3-time elected mayor, Danny Vaknin, has not been out on the town.
Having arrived in Bet Shemesh in 1994, a year after [...]
The man in the photos is Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (Shlit”a). These posters were part of the last Israel national government elections. The posters are for the Sha”s party, which is comprised of ultra-orthodox Sefardic Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent.
Rabbi Yosef was the Chief Sefardic Rabbi of Israel in the 1980s (Rishon Leziyon) [...]
