The party, which has made extensive use of the app, which one campaign source claimed won it an additional 3-5 Knesset seats in the last election, said that the decision constitutes a 'change in the rules of the game.'

Less faith and more reason – that's what Israelis need in confusing times like these, when war has become the default mode, and peace is an illusory hope that deserves our contempt

Discussing opposition politician Gadi Eisenkot, the pro-Netanyahu channel achieved the identity-politics singularity: ethnicity is no longer inherited but determined at the ballot box. All you need to do is ask how someone votes. Bibi? You're Mizrahi. Anti-Bibi? Mazel tov, you're Ashkenazi