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Fathom Highlight: Making Sense of the Israeli Elections / 24 March / 2015

On 20 March 2015, three days after the Israeli election, former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Naomi Chazan made sense of the election results at a Fathom Forum in London. A transcript of her talk is this week’s Fathom Highlight.

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Making Sense of the Israeli Elections

by Naomi Chazan

On 20 March 2015, three days after the Israeli election, former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Naomi Chazan made sense of the election results at a Fathom Forum in London. These were heavily contested elections – they were unquestionably the most contested elections since 1999 – and the results show that. During the course of the election there was a lot of acrimony – very, very heated – there was a tremendous amount of engagement of civil society, which is...

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