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Jerusalem 2018 Elections & Some Other Thoughts

By Erik Zimerman On October 30, 2018 · Add Comment · In Against the Wind, Avvisi, Joab's Men

A few short hours separate us from the start of municipal elections across Israel. As always, the outcome of the election in Jerusalem is of supreme importance, not only for our ancient and holy capital, but for Israel and even the Western World at large. First let us remember what happened last election. It was a clear race between Nir Barkat (the current mayor, who chose not to run again for a third term since) and Moshe Lion. Lion was a successful accountant from Givataym (Tel-Aviv area), and was not very well familiar with nor prepared for the intricacies of a mayoral election in Jerusalem (not to mention an actual administration). He was “drafted” by current Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s group to support a right-wing municipal administration in our capital. The strategy was pretty plain and simple. Lion was Sefaradi, like the majority of Jersualem’s population, and observant, also like the majority of Jerusalem. Lion has close ties with many Likud and Ysrael Beiteinu power-brokers (the Likud itself was a client of Lion’s accounting firm in the 90’s), and seemed to everyone as good as a Mizrahi candidate as any other. Nir Barkat was neither observant nor Sefaradi, and the [...]

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