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Mazal Mualem

Mazal Mualem

Mar 11, 2016

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid (C) speaks to members of the media in Tel Aviv before heading on a campaign tour March 15, 2015. Once a heartthrob television news anchor, Lapid, 51, was the rising star of Israeli politics in the 2013 election. His centrist Yesh Atid party came second behind Netanyahu's Likud. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTR4TEHU — Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid (C) speaks to members of the media in Tel Aviv before heading on a campaign tour, Mar. 15, 2015. — REUTERS/Baz Ratner

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Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

Co-leader of the Zionist Union party, Israeli Labour Party leader Isaac Herzog (C), arrives on stage with his wife Michal as he reacts to exit poll figures in Israel's parliamentary elections late on March 17, 2015 in the city of Tel Aviv. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rightwing Likud party is neck-and-neck with the centre-left Zionist Union, exit polls say. AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON (Photo credit should read GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images)

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Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

Labour party candidates Itzik Shmuli (R) and Stav Shaffir attend a mock election at a high school in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv December 6, 2012. The leaders of a grassroots social protest movement that swept Israel in 2011, Shaffir and Shmuli, have shot to the top of a rejuvenated Labour party that polls say will at least double its power in a Jan. 22 general election that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud is forecast to win. Picture taken December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL - Tags

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Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics

Isaac Herzog (L) and Tzipi Livni, co-leaders of Zionist Union, deliver a statement at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv March 18, 2015. Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Wednesday to form a new governing coalition quickly after an upset election victory that was built on a shift to the right and is likely to worsen a troubled relationship with the White House. With nearly all votes counted on Wednesday, Netanyahu's Likud had won 30 seats in the 120-member Knesset, comfortably defeating th

Time for Israeli left to reassess after election failure

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics