After four failed attempts and 16 months in opposition, Binyamin Netanyahu seems to have won a parliamentary majority that will put him back in office
, Israel’s premier commando unit, did not simply model itself on Britain’s Special Air Service , it also stole its motto: “Who dares wins”. It is a creed that has been tested almost to destruction by Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-servingand an alumnus of the Israeli unit. After four failed attempts and 16 months in opposition, Mr Netanyahu seems to have won a parliamentary majority that will put him back in the prime minister’s office.
Another contributing factor was the chronic division among centre-left and Arab parties, two of which seem to have failed to cross the electoral threshold of 3.25%. These differences led to the early demise of the government formed in June 2021 by a broad coalition assembled by Yair Lapid that included right-wing, centrist, left-wing and Islamist parties.
Mr Ben-Gvir was until very recently a political pariah. His résumé includes threatening to “get to” the former prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, shortly before his assassination by a Jewish extremist in 1995, and membership of a virulently anti-Arab party that was proscribed by the Israeli government as a terrorist organisation. As recently as the election held in March 2020, Jewish Power won just 19,000 votes.
Mr Netanyahu’s usual coalition partners, the ultra-Orthodox parties, have their own lists of demands. These include bigger budgets for religious schools as well as the right not to teach their children ungodly subjects such as maths and English.
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