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Posted By simmons on March 19, 2015

JERUSALEM Israels parliamentary elections this week were full of surprises, with most wondering how public opinion surveys and exit polls got the forecast so wrongand how a landslide victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus right-wing Likud party does not necessarily indicate any significant shift to the right in Israeli society. The answer, might lie somewhere in the breakdown of how Israelis voted across the country: 1) The Tel Aviv bubble Theres a reason why Israelis sometimes view Tel Aviv residents as living inside a bubble. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus right-wing bloc prepares to return to the leadership for another term, it appears that most of those living in the sun-kissed city of liberal ideas and secularism gave their support to the center-left Zionist Union and not a small amount to the dovish Meretz party

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WorldViews: Israels election was fought along class and religious lines

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