Israeli Election Coverage and Analysis

On January 22, Israelis will head to the polls to make their voices heard in national elections. Meanwhile, across the globe, the American Jewish community wants to know: how will the results affect the future of Israel, the peace process and the issues we care about?

The Big Night and What’s Next:
Israeli Election Coverage and Analysis

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Join the New Israel Fund, J Street NYC, Partners for Progressive Israel, Americans for Peace Now, and One Voice at NIF's “election headquarters” to hear analysis from Gideon Lichfield, former Jerusalem bureau chief of The Economist, and tune in to special footage of Israeli experts evaluating diverse topics, including:

How the results of the election will affect social justice issues and civil society in Israel
How the Israeli media has covered and impacted the elections
An analysis of the Arab-Israeli civilian voter turnout
The female vote: why and how women are voting in this election

We’ll be analyzing campaign strategies, covering game-changing events and exploring what lies ahead for the Israeli people and the larger geopolitical landscape.

A kosher Israeli supper and drinks is included.
$18 RSVP, $25 on the day of

**Please Note: Registration is currently closed. Tickets may be purchased at the door for $25.**

About Gideon: Gideon Lichfield is the news editor at Quartz, a global business-news website launched in September 2012 by Atlantic Media. Before that he spent 16 years at The Economist, including stints as a science and technology writer, correspondent in Mexico City, Moscow, and Jerusalem, and various positions in the magazine's New York bureau. He spent four years covering Israel and Palestine, a period that encompassed the Israeli withdrawal of settlements from Gaza in 2005, the Israel-Lebanon war of 2006, the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007, and Israel's operation Cast Lead in 2009.

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