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January 5, 2021

The Rapid Collapse of Israel’s Center-Left

Alliances shift, but not the underlying causes of deadlock.

Since the beginning of the century, Israel’s once-dominant Labor party has faded from importance, only able to make itself viable through alliances with various parties of the political center or moderate right. Thus the past several elections have pitted the Likud and its right-wing allies against one form or another of the center-left. But recent polls have shown a precipitous decline in the proportion of Israelis willing to vote for a center-left party. Haviv Rettig Gur explains:

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