Word: binyamin
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...Another important lesson on the dangers of polling came in Israel in 1996. Despite initial exit polling suggesting Shimon Peres had been elected Prime Minister, when the actual votes were tallied it was Binyamin Netanyahu who emerged victorious. I spent six tough but fascinating years based in Jerusalem. Reminders of the day when Israel “went to bed with Peres and woke up with Bibi” were often given to caution foreign journalists against placing too much trust in Israeli opinion polls...
...Olmert wooed Lieberman in part to preempt the Yisrael Beiteinu leader from coupling with his one-time mentor and leader of the Likud opposition, former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. While the move maintains the primacy of Olmert's Kadima party, some questioned how a Prime Minister already under fire for his management of the Hizballah war could hand Lieberman, who has no military or intelligence background, a position that carries at least some responsibility for watching Iran, which many Israeli leaders identify as their country's greatest threat...
...Some Israelis say that's because the three main candidates-Kadima?s Ehud Olmert, Likud?s Binyamin Netanyahu and Labor?s Amir Peretz-are all either uninspiring or distrusted. But the real reason may be that most Israelis consider the results to be a foregone conclusion. The latest polls give acting prime minister Ehud Olmert's Kadima party enough votes to clobber its rivals (though not enough for a majority); one weekend survey, conducted by the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth, predicts that Kadima will win 36 Knesset seats, Labor 21, and Likud will end up a distant third with...
...soft and fluffy, like the beard? Labor's 130,000 members voted overwhelmingly to find out. Many who supported Mitzna in the primary say they don't really know what kind of a man he is, but that anything's better than the man he defeated, party hack Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. And they don't expect Mitzna to lead them to victory in the elections, which are likely to show a wartime swing to the right. After 20 months in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "national unity" coalition, Labor just wants a dovish alternative to the hard line. They...
Four hours after the Tel Aviv attack, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and senior military and intelligence officials. Sharon argued, as he has before, that Arafat should be forced into exile. But Ben-Eliezer and most of the other officials spoke against exile, believing it would give Arafat new life and a ready excuse for his inability--or refusal, as Israelis see it--to rein in militants. At 6:30 p.m. Sharon convened a meeting of his Cabinet and announced a plan to isolate his old enemy but not exile or kill...