No, Israel Probably Won’t Hold Elections in November
Netanyahu is bluffing.
July 24, 2020
Netanyahu is bluffing.
On Wednesday, Israeli news media began reporting, based on an anonymous source within the prime minister’s office, that Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to call elections for this coming November—which, were it to actually happen, would be the fourth election in nineteen months. But even though polls show Netanyahu’s Likud party with a solid lead, writes Haviv Rettig Gur, the same polls show that it would likely be very difficult for him to form a governing coalition. It’s more probable that Netanyahu is simply bluffing, Gur argues:
Netanyahu is bluffing.
Now they’re paying a price.
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The rabbinic tradition got it right.
On Wednesday, Israeli news media began reporting, based on an anonymous source within the prime minister’s office, that Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to call elections for this coming November—which, were it to actually happen, would be the fourth election in nineteen months. But even though polls show Netanyahu’s Likud party with a solid lead, writes Haviv Rettig Gur, the same polls show that it would likely be very difficult for him to form a governing coalition. It’s more probable that Netanyahu is simply bluffing, Gur argues:
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