Election fever is filling the air over Israel as attacks on Prime Minister Netanyahu grow louder and more frequent and media begins a new fixation on the possible permutations for the formation of a new government following elections. Relations between the PM and the Yesh Atid party – a coalition partner headed by first-time politico Yair Lapid – have grown increasingly edgy while Netanyahu – and his political opponents — openly court the religious parties left out of his current coalition for which inclusion in a government means significant government largesse. The most recent polling shows Netanyahu in a strong position to retain his position as prime minister presiding over a distinctively right wing government, although some see an alternative in an alliance between the religious parties and those in the center and left-of-center. For some of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s critics, pushing for elections is a double-edged sword. Polls show Lapid’s party, for instance, as a big loser the next time around while Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, whose new party survived a poor showing in the last election and was salvaged by accepting Netanyahu’s invitation to join the coalition, is predicted to fall short of the threshold and vanish from the parliament.
Israel’s Government Grows Increasingly Unstable; Election Talk Fill the Media
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