Early Elections to Be Held In Israel
On Tuesday, October 9th, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he will be calling for general elections to be brought forward to early 2013. Netanyahu explained that the reason for the decision was that the current Israeli government has been unable to successfully negotiate the State budget for 2013. No official date has been set for the elections, but they could be held as early as January. As reported by The Times of Israel, “He [Netanyahu] did not specify a date, but said he would go to the polls ‘as soon as possible’ and spoke of a ‘three month campaign’ — which could mean as soon as January 2013. ‘I seek a renewed mandate from the people to continue to lead the state of Israel,’ he said. He said his government, which was about to mark four years in office, had been ‘the most stable in decades.’ It had made impressive achievements in the fields of security — including deployment of the Iron Dome anti-missile system, and progress on the Israel-Egypt border fence — and on the economy, even in the midst of global financial crisis. But there was still much work to be done — including thwarting Iran’s nuclear drive, defending Israel’s borders from terror and infiltration, maintaining Israel’s regional peace accords, protecting Israel’s interests in peace efforts with the Palestinians, and nurturing the economy, Netanyahu said.”
Please pray for Israel’s leaders to be like the Sons of Issachar, who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do (1 Chronicles 12:32).
