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March 7, 2013
9:32 am

Samira Ibrahim is probably lying: technical evidence

The row over Samira Ibrahim's tweets (written up by my fellow blogger Marc) is raging. Mainstream US journalists are now beginning to cover the story, and Jeffery Goldberg has......

March 3, 2013
7:36 pm

The Tightrope Coalition

Here is the problem. Benjamin Netanyahu is the Israeli people's choice for Prime Minister. For some people, this is an enthusiastic vote of confidence in a leader they admire; for......

January 31, 2013
2:58 pm

Election Scorecard: Polls and Pollsters

Israel's elections are over, and there are no more polls for the data junkies to pour over and discuss. Reality has intruded on predictions and voter models. It's almost an......

January 21, 2013
4:25 pm

How to Vote: a Guide for First-Time Voters

As a relatively new immigrant to Israel, this will be the first election in which I'm entitled to vote in Israel. Because it's been a while since the last......

December 31, 2012
2:14 pm

Is Likud-Beyteinu collapsing?

On October 25, when Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman stood in the Dan Panorama and announced that their two parties would be running on a joint slate, they......

December 27, 2012
1:26 am

Assessing the Bayit HaYehudi “surge”

News coverage of elections is all about position and momentum - who's ahead? Who's gaining? Whose support is dropping? Opinion polls are the single best way of determining how people......

November 28, 2012
1:18 pm

Haaretz dodgy data in Livni poll story

A story in Haaretz today, based around a new Dialog poll of Israeli voters, announces "The Left Bloc contracts further". The Haaretz piece reveals that their new poll......

November 16, 2012
4:01 am

Kick Hamas off Twitter

One thing that the world media has discovered in the course of the current conflict: Hamas has a Twitter account. Actually, Hamas probably has lots of Twitter accounts. Specifically, though,......

November 13, 2012
4:40 pm

A Gaza operation is a trap for Israel

The renewed rocket fire into Southern Israel has created a trap that Israel's leaders are fighting hard to avoid. Escalations in the South happen every couple of months, but they're......

October 26, 2012
3:30 pm

Israel needs more openness in opinion polling

Avi Mayer did the cause of honesty and openness a service when he dug into the data of the Dialog poll published in Haaretz this week.......

August 30, 2012
5:16 pm

Why I collected a gas mask: the threats Israel is preparing for

It must be serious if the Muppets are involved. A few days ago I, like everyone else, received a leaflet produced by the Home Front Defence, explaining how to......

August 16, 2012
1:58 pm

Israel’s Olympic success

On the face of it, London 2012 was a bad Olympic Games for Israel. Israeli athletes left with no medals at all, not even a lonely Bronze. In Israel,......