The Central Elections Committee's decisions, taken late on Wednesday, were unlikely to be implemented before court appeals, but stoked an already acrimonious race for the April 9 vote. Facing a corruption case and a merger of centrist parties that could defeat him, the conservative Netanyahu has
JERUSALEM - Israel's election board has approved far-right Jewish candidates accused by rivals of racism for next month's election while disqualifying an Arab party that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said supported terrorism.
The elections committee, made up of members of the outgoing parliament, struck down motions that had sought to bar as racist Jewish Power's Michael Ben-Ari and Itamar Ben-Gvir, who are adherents of late anti-Arab rabbi Meir Kahane. The Supreme Court did reinstate Balad after it was disqualified in 2009, when it ran separately in a parliamentary election.
His alliance has brought rare censure from the U.S. pro-Israel lobby and normally staunch Netanyahu backer AIPAC, which called Jewish Power a"racist and reprehensible party."
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