Is the Bibi baby, a weak and ineffectual leader who cannot even get a grip on universal military service for all. Power to those that work, serve in the army and teach their children to do the same honorable thing. Stop all stipends to the useless layabouts we and any modern enlightened society cannot support them, nor do we wish to. Away with this wimp Bibi.

Stupid Kadima & Labour worry only about how to gain votes and grab power. Iran is laughing at the internal Israeli squabbles and proceeding full speed ahead with the bomb. Only Netanyahu & Likud can guarantee the security of Israel.

...because integration of the military with Haredi, Arab, Jew is the first step to integrating Israeli society as a whole. Integration of education, the workforce, and housing in Israel will follow, as it did in the United States, leading to a truly integrated, truly democratic, truly free society.

he is the winner, he has a backbone !!

Nice cliches............ "eyes were rolled" "tongues were clicked" But what about the old favourite......... "eyebrows were raised......" ????

attila says lapid is the winner by default given mofaz, a lousy mk with a rotten lousy party consisting of sheetret, shai, hasson, and plesner-weaklings of the first order who sat their while their prince olmert got 150idf soldiers killed needlessly and israel humiliated. and they didn't boot him out after winograd. so kadima will be wiped out and where the few mks who get reelected is difficult to say. ehud barak who apparently was a leader in bringing mofaz in to dilute lieberman is deeper in the hole and won't be around in the next election that is clear. Lapid and his party are new but when the light focuses on his family connections to olmert and how they supported him, the public will turn on him. No one in their right mind wants olmert anywhere near leadership controls no matter that moussia arad and his colleagues threw olmert a life saver. Livni, will find a spot somewhere but her association with ramon, an inconsequential buffoon who carried olmert's water is hard to take and shows how incompetent she is.

It depends on how you define winners and losers. However, Yair Lapid and Tzippi Livni are not winners in any long or even medium term sense. Both may have an "I told you so" moment but that hardly makes them winners. Lapid is a vapid, mental light weight, who stands for nothing. Livni is an absolute disaster in every aspect of her political life.

I only hope that Olmert will be warming up in a prison cell where he deserves to be. I cannot believe that could be acquitted over Holyland. It seems if you are a Leftist in Israel you can commit any kind of crime or treason without being dully punished.

There is no shred of evidence that Iran is "proceeding" with the bomb. The bomb only exists in the feeble imagination of people like you have been duped by Bibi and his Likud outfit. They have used the "Iranian threat/bobm" bogeyman to make you believe they are going to keep Israel "secure". The truth is Likud has made more isolated, scared and illegitimate in the eyes of the world, except the US congress..

The real losers are the Israeli citizens who live daily in a struggle to survive. To feed their children and hold their heads high in a country where the so called leadership is an every day embarrassment. Not only an embarrassment but a real threat as they continue to make themselves a laughing stock to the world but continue their little squabbles while their enemy laugh and plan for their total destruction. I pray daily for the Shalom of Yerushalayim! A descendent of David is sorely needed to lead Israel back to her glory.

you forgot to mention Haim Amsalem whose party Am Shalem could gain anywhere from 1 to 3 seats. that development will begin the process of undermining the religious party Shas and if Aryeh Deri runs too then Shas will lose even more. Now there is an Ashkenazi equivalent of HaimAmsalem whose party has fared well in municipal elections of Beit Shemesh. His name is Dov Lipman and he is an American Haredi who is making headways in Beit Shemesh with his party TOV. If all these new faces emerge and call for reform and change of attitude in haredi politics, by the next elections 2017, we will see a changed haredi landscape.