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TelaVivian, Vol 8: Election Predictions are a Fool's Errand

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TelaVivian, Vol 8: Election Predictions are a Fool's Errand

Vivian Bercovici shares her election day thoughts, predictions and the fool's errand in making them

Vivian Bercovici
Nov 1, 2022
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TelaVivian, Vol 8: Election Predictions are a Fool's Errand

In the weeks leading up to the 2015 Israeli election I was being pressed by one of my colleagues in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa to predict the outcome.

At the time, I was serving as the Canadian Ambassador to Israel.

A very senior public servant in the Department, who fancied himself something of a mid-east expert, pressed me on this predict…

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