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Israel's April elections revolved around the pending indictments against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While the centrist and leftist political parties committed not to join a Netanyahu-led government and attacked various proposed immunity laws designed to protect him, the right-wing parties including even ultra-Orthodox Shas have closed ranks around his leadership and proudly declared that they will back Netanyahu.
Now it seems that the focus of the September elections will no longer be the suspicions of corruption surrounding Netanyahu but rather the threat to Israel’s eroding democracy and essence — whether it will continue to be a democratic, secular state or a Torah-based halachic one governed by rabbis and religious rules.
