The election campaign that Israel got pulled into like some drowning man sucked into a whirlpool will revolve around one simple question: Are you for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or against him? Will the accumulating critical mass of Israeli public disdain for Netanyahu, who has governed the country for almost six consecutive years (and a total of almost nine years), suffice for him to be uprooted from the Prime Minister’s Residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem? Will politicians on the right such as Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, former Minister Moshe Kahlon (who started a new party) and maybe even Shas party leader Aryeh Deri agree to become ''camp crossers'' and “tiebreakers,” allowing the center-left bloc to form a government in Israel?
Disdain toward Netanyahu will not be enough to remove him from power. With the Israeli public still moving to the right, even if Netanyahu is defeated, he may still be able to put together a coalition, given the fact that together with the ultra-Orthodox, Economy and Trade Minister and HaBayit HaYehudi party leader Naftali Bennett, and one or two other parties (Liberman, Kahlon), he will be able to cross the 61-seat majority threshold and put his fourth government together.
