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?