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Could Bloc for Change really replace Netanyahu?

Only one week before the deadline Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces, it is unclear whether his opponents have the majority to compose an alternative government.
Israeli Knesset member Naftali Bennett attends the swearing-in ceremony of Israel's Knesset (parliament) in Jerusalem, on April 6, 2021.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been compared in recent days to a high-risk stock. One minute he seems very close to losing his seat; a minute later it seems that he again has succeeded in controlling reality via political acrobatics and finesse.

On May 4, just one week from today, Netanyahu’s mandate to assemble a government expires, and the bitter reality is that the prime minister is blocked from all sides. He does not have a majority to establish a right-wing government, and an atmosphere of change has been circulating in the general public. The big question is: Will a new government headed by Yamina Chairman Naftali Bennett really arise, or is that also only an illusion?

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