At 11’30 AM, With 97% of regular votes counted, Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-religious bloc is heading to a convincing victory, while the left-wing Meretz party remains short of crossing the threshold.

The Central Elections Committee has so far counted 4,101,766 votes, with 24,306 invalidated.

Based on the current count, Netanyahu’s bloc would pick up 65 seats, though this number may change as more ballots are processed, including some 500,000 “double envelopes” containing ballots cast by soldiers, prisoners and diplomats.

Currently, Likud has 31; Yesh Atid, 24; Religious Zionism, 14; National Unity, 12; Shas, 12; United Torah Judaism, 8; Yisrael Beytenu, 5; Ra’am, 5; Hadash-Ta’al, 5 and Labor has 4.

What a relief.

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Now that he has won a clear majority in parliament, there is no political justification to take a backseat to the Left’s ideology.

By  Ariel Kahana, ISRAEL HAYOM

Benjamin Netanyahu scored a resounding victory over his detractors on the left in Tuesday’s election, but no less than that – he also settled the score with his rivals on the Right. Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Lieberman, Gideon Saar, Zeev Elkin, Zvi Hauser, Moshe Ya’alon, Yoaz Hendel, Ayelet Shaked, and all the other right-wing politicians who refused to toe the line found themselves in opposition or at home.
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T. Belman. I would rather have the Israeli government at odds with the Biden Administration then sharing the same bed with them as the Lapid government did. We must keep them at arms length and force them to understand that Israel is in charge of the country, not them. In football terms, we must strong-arm them.

The prospect of not only a victory for Netanyahu and Likud, but the formation of a government with a prominent role for the Religious Zionist Party and one of its controversial leaders, Itamar Ben-Gvir, is enough to set the hair of Democrats and the foreign-policy establishment on fire.

By  Jonathan S. Tobin

The votes in Israel’s latest Knesset election are still being counted, but the exit polls confirmed the worst fears of the Biden administration. While Israel isn’t getting the same kind of obsessive attention it has received at times in the past, there’s no question that President Joe Biden and his foreign-policy team have strong opinions about who should be running the Jewish state that are echoed by most Democrats and the liberal mainstream media.

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There are a half-million excess deaths in the United States that are unaccounted for—and the usual suspects do not add up to that many.

By Edward Ring, AM GREATNESS   

By a significant margin, and according to data reported weekly by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the death rate in America remains elevated. If nothing else is certain as Americans continue to cope with the most disruptive event in the last half-century, one fact is indisputable: As the number of cases of COVID-19 decreased over the past few months, they now account for less than half of this persistently elevated death rate.

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The vote was a national referendum on the tremendous damage caused cycle after election cycle by opposing parliamentarians who conspired to block the people’s choice from serving as prime minister. Op-ed.

By Alex Traiman, INN    Nov 3, 2022,

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(JNS) Apparently in Israel, the fifth time is the charm. After repeated attempts by the opposition, by defectors from his own right-wing bloc, by the prosecution and the Supreme Court to prevent embattled former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from ruling, the electorate finally ended Israel’s protracted political deadlock by voting overwhelmingly in favor of Netanyahu and his natural—and loyal—right-wing allies.
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T. Belman. One of the big frustrations the Right has had with Bibi was that he was too centrist. He now has to be more aggressive in subduing Arab terrorism and the Arab narrative. And more aggressive in draining the swamp and in reforming the High Court and making the Knesset  the voice of Israel and not the Court.

The Religious Zionist Party will insist on it.

The former prime minister hasn’t been big on military adventures or changes to the judicial system, but his need to cancel his corruption trial is converging with far-right partners keen to curb the Supreme Court

By Amos Harel, HAARETZ

By Victor Davis Hanson

As the midterms approach, one way of looking at America’s current disaster is that we, the American people, were lab rats. And since 2021, the Left were the mad scientists, eager to try out their crackpot leftist experiments on us.

The result is that the housing market is tottering on the verge of collapse.

As interest rates soar, our $31 trillion national debt crowds out everything else in the budget.

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The Religious Zionism Party is NOT “Extreme.”

THIS IS A GREAT TO-DO LIST

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:

The Zionist Organization of America congratulates former and soon-to-be-new Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the entire pro-Zionist bloc (including Likud, Religious Zionism, Shas and Agouda) on their apparent election win yesterday.  According to reports, this victory is likely to be confirmed after the “double envelope” (absentee) votes are all counted.

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American troops are now on the ground in Ukraine

By Ted Belman

Haaretz asks how it is that both both the Bibi Camp and the anti-Bibi camp received 49.5 % of the vote, each, yet the Bibi Camp got 65 seats. They go on to blame the Labour leader for not running with Meretz. Meretz went on to garner only 3% of the vote and such votes ended up in the ash-can of failed votes. These votes if part of a joint run should have increased the Anti-Bibi Camps total of seats by 3 or 4.

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T. Belman. I’m glad to hear it. The Biden Admin only communicates to influence and apply pressure.

It is a hinderance, not a help.

Ben-Gvir could become the first Israeli minister to be boycotted by the US government.

Israel National News  Nov 2, 2022, 6:58 PM

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The Biden Administration is likely to refuse to work with Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben-Gvir if he becomes a minister in Israel’s next government, Axios reported.

Two US officials said that no final decision has been made yet, but the administration is likely to boycott Ben-Gvir, who would become the first Israeli minister the US government would refuse to work with.

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T. Belman. Very interesting. I wonder what it means. Are they assuming that but for Shaked, those that voted for her wouldn’t have votes otherwise. Is that not a stretch.

What did she mean by “Our running is strategic and after the elections, you will understand why,”?

Did Bibi ask her to not drop out figuring that her votes would not be at the expense of the Right? If so, what did he promise her?Perhaps a Minister’s portfolio or an Ambassadorship. You don’t have to be an MK to be either.

Journalist Amit Segal says Ayelet Shaked’s run gave right-wing bloc three more seats, brought down Meretz.

By Orly Harari, INN  Nov 2, 2022, 11:51 AM

Channel 12 journalist Amit Segal believes that Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked and her Jewish Home party brought the right-wing bloc to victory – even though the party itself did not pass the electoral threshold.

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https://rumble.com/v1qj6k3-britain-has-fallen-with-rishi-sunak-the-wefs-coup-is-complete.html

Billionaire and WEF member, Rishi Sunak has been working closely with Klaus Schwab to implement the globalist agenda – The Great Reset a.k.a. the Fourth Industrial Revolution, New World Order, Agenda 21.

Turns out, Muslims—not evangelicals, Jews, or rednecks—are the most ‘Islamophobic’ demographic in America.

by Raymond Ibrahim, FPM

For long, the powers that be have insisted that Islamophobia—defined as “unfounded fear of and hostility towards Islam”—is the root of all problems between Muslims and non-Muslims in the West. Speaking last May, Joe Biden lamented that “so many Muslims [are] being targeted with violence. No one, no one should [be] discriminated against or be oppressed for their religious beliefs…. Muslims make our nation stronger every single day, even as they still face real challenges and threats in our society, including targeted violence and Islamophobia that exists.”

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One is liberalizing, the other is massacring its people. Can you guess which one Biden is aiding – and the one he’s pushing away?

 by Kenneth R. Timmerman, FPM

Biden and the woke Democrats have enthralled themselves in a bizarre love affair with the Mullahs in Iran, while repelling energy and capital giant Saudi Arabia.

The strategic imbecility of this position amounts to geopolitical malpractice. It has emboldened the Iranian regime to murder Americans around the world, including threatened attacks against our former president and members of his administration, and to ruthlessly suppress dissent at home.

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BY Zvika Klein, JPOST

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RZP holds newfound parliamentary power

The RZP has a few main topics that it wishes to promote, but the ones most relevant to diaspora Jews and secular Israelis are putting forward very conservative views regarding security, religion and state, and of course Israel-Diaspora relations.

Smotrich has said that he will strengthen Judea and Samaria and preferably ask for the Defense Ministry portfolio. In addition, Ben-Gvir is interested in leading the Public Security Ministry.

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By Daniel Greenfield, 01 Nov 09:52 PM

Election Day results, like clean streets and easily available products in supermarkets, have become artifacts of a recent glorious past. Don’t count on finding eggs and milk at the market or finding out who won the election on Election Day. The 2022 midterms, like the 2020 elections, are a work in progress that will, one day, when the right ballots are found, elect somebody.

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