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Netanyahu and far right allies win Israeli election; Plus Matt Mahan on his candidacy for SJ Mayor

Itamar Ben Gvir in 2019. Image by David Denberg is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

On today’s show:

0:08 – We unpack the results of the Israeli election with Richard Silverstein (@richards1052), an independent journalist and author of the Tikun Olam blog and Khury Petersen-Smith (@kpyes), Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.

0:33 – Vic Bedoian (@vicbedoian) reports on the California House District 22 Race between David Valadao and Rudy Salas.

0:40 – Matt Mahan (@MattMahanSJ), Councilmember for San Jose District 10 discusses his candidacy for Mayor of San Jose.

Programming note: We went back and forth with Cindy Chavez’ campaign staff who said they were unable to schedule an interview this close to election day.