It appears the lone black member of the Knesset is Avraham Neguise of the Likud Party. He is an Ethopian Jew who immigrated to Israel in the 1980s:
I wonder what the "conservatives hate minorities" crowd has to say about that.
Posted on 04/11/2019 10:52:51 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
The Likud is projected to gain one mandate over the initial post-election vote count, pushing it from 35 to 36 seats, after the counting of special ballots was completed Thursday, Israeli media outlets reported Thursday afternoon.
Special ballots, which make up some five percent of the nearly 4.3 million votes cast in Tuesday’s election, include the votes of Israeli soldiers stationed at bases across the country, prisoners in jails and detention facilities, voters in Israeli hospitals, and members of the Foreign Ministry overseas service.
The preliminary results of the full county of all ballots cast in the election show the Likud likely to pick up an extra seat over the early forecasts which did not include the special votes, Maariv and Israel Hayom reported.
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The balance between the right-wing – religious bloc and the left-wing – Arab bloc remains unchanged, however, as the two seats come at the expense of the right-wing Union of Right-Wing Parties, which appears likely to fall from five to four seats – and from the haredi United Torah Judaism party, which will fall from eight to seven.
Despite reports that Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s New Right faction had cleared the 3.25% electoral threshold, the full count of the special ballots shows his faction falling just short of the minimum threshold, with some 138,000 votes, or slightly over 1,000 votes below the bare minimum required to enter the Knesset.
A glitch on the Central Elections Committee website had mistakenly undercounted the total number of votes cast, overestimating each party’s vote share slightly and thus showing the New Right barely passing the threshold.
The New Right called for a recount of special ballots, citing irregularities in the counting process.
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And people think the Electoral College is a complicated system....
I guess the New York Slimes and the Washington ComPost are Likuding their self-inflicted wounds.
They sure do self-inflect those wounds a lot. Force of habit, and due to thinking themselves smarter than they really are, which is also a bad habit.
The Jerusalem Post is more and more indistiguishable from the NYT and WaPo. JP is now calling for a ‘unity government’, handing power to Gantz and Lapide they couldn’t get from votes.
The important thing is that the Likud Party won.
Not to me. Likud is the reality we must deal with, but my main interest is New Right being in the Knesset, however minimally.
Let them make their bones in opposition, like Likud once had to. No talk of unity then.
Are there any CLEAR ideological differences between Likud and The New Right? IMO it sounds more like a clash of different historic backgrounds like the two right-of-center parties in Ireland refusing to work together even though they agree on 95% of the issues. The New Right split from The Jewish Home because Jewish Home is only for Orthodox Jews but The New Right wanted to welcome secular voters into their party. Y'know... like Likud does!
I'd also compare it to the Conservative Party/UKIP split in the UK, except its reversed in Israel, with Netenyahu's government sounding more and more like a single issue "Islamofacism is bad" party. It's gotten old.
As for whether I'd endorse The New Right, it really depends on what the circumstances were in that particular district. If the Likud candidate is some RINO-like joke that has no chance of winning anyway, sure, I'd vote The New Right instead. But if the Likud candidate is a solid conservative and The New Right candidate is only polling 3% and is likely to play spoiler and pull enough conservative votes away from the Likud candidate to result in a marxist godless leftist winning the seat, forget it!
It appears the lone black member of the Knesset is Avraham Neguise of the Likud Party. He is an Ethopian Jew who immigrated to Israel in the 1980s:
I wonder what the "conservatives hate minorities" crowd has to say about that.
They’ll do what they always do, either ignore him or claim he’s not really “Black/African.”
I trust Naftali Bennett to not stand for any new outposts being abruptly destroyed. Bibi did a bunch of them to curry favor with BHO, only he had Ehud Barak do the dirty work. Bibi also has inflicted considerable pain on Hebron, giving the PA 97% of it and forcing the Jewish residents to endure a year and a half of constant sniper fire aimed at their homes, them as they walked the streets, and vehicles. Worst was the murder of Hadassah Tehiya, a six-month old babe in her pram. Her father was wounded by the bullet after it passed through her tiny body. Then there was the pitched battle to retake the high ground in Hebron to finally retake the high ground and stop the shooting. 24 soldiers KIA, including a great colonel. This was all because of Bibi’s attempts to give up land for piece. He makes great speeches, but I don’t trust him. I wanted Bennett to act as a hamper to his more stupid moves.
How effective can Bennett be when he didn’t win a Knesset seat?
He did, apparently, and either Likud or some lefties did some sleight of hand and over a thousand votes disappeared, just enough to keep New Right out of the Knesset. Very fishy.
Heartbreaking, after they announced sexy chick had made it in, they revealed that was a computer error.
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