Haviv Rettig Gur on Netanyahu, Lapid, and Another Israeli Election
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
On March 23, 2021, Israel voted in its 24th Knesset, and with it sent Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid to the premiership. Next week, on November 1, 2022, Israelis return to the polls in order to vote, again—for the fifth time in just over three years—to elect the 25th Knesset and a new prime minister. The central personality of the election is Israel’s longest serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been leading the opposition since leaving office in 2021, who remains the head of the Likud party, and who could shortly return to the prime ministership. His chief rival is the current prime minister, Yair Lapid, running to return. And then there are new and rising figures who represent a range of interests, attitudes, and identities from throughout Israeli society.
This week on the podcast, Mosaic editor Jonathan Silver is joined by Haviv Rettig Gur, the lead political reporter at the Times of Israel and a frequent Mosaic contributor. Together, the two look at Israel’s upcoming elections as well as its current political culture.
Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble.
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| 0:00.0 | On March 23rd, 2021, Israel voted in the 24th Knesset, |
| 0:14.3 | and Naftali Bennett and Yaiyir Lapid to the premiership. |
| 0:17.9 | Next week, on November 1st, 2022, Israelis return to the polls in order to vote again, |
| 0:24.6 | now for the fifth time in just over three years, to elect the 25th Knesset, and a new prime minister. |
| 0:32.6 | The central personality of the election is Israel's longest serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, |
| 0:38.7 | who has been leading the opposition since 2021. He remains the head of the Likud Party and could |
| 0:44.5 | very well return to office. There's also the current prime minister, Yai'ir Lapid, who's running to |
| 0:49.8 | return. And there are new and rising figures who represent a range of interests, attitudes, and |
| 0:56.0 | identities from throughout Israeli society. Welcome to the Tikva podcast. I'm your host, Jonathan |
| 1:01.7 | Silver. This week, we look at Israel's November 22 elections with the lead political reporter |
| 1:08.0 | at the times of Israel and sometimes mosaic contributor, |
| 1:11.6 | Javiv Rettig Gore. If you enjoy this conversation, you can subscribe to the Tikva podcast on |
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| 1:39.6 | conversation with Kaviv Retikur, welcome back to the Tikva podcast. |
| 1:45.0 | Thanks so much for having me, Jonathan. |
| 1:47.0 | Elections are upon us. |
| 1:48.0 | Israelis go to the polls in just a few days. |
| 1:51.0 | Let's just begin with the sort of overview to try to establish the context |
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