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May 6, 2021

Benjamin Netanyahu Lost His Chance to Form a Government Because His Voters Are Losing Faith in Him

Policy successes and declining turnout.

At midnight on Tuesday, the deadline for Prime Minister Netanyahu to form a governing coalition expired, and now President Reuven Rivlin has given the mandate to Yair Lapid, whose Yesh Atid party received the second-largest number of Knesset seats in the recent election. Netanyahu’s Likud won that election by a substantial margin—30 seats as opposed to Yesh Atid’s 17—but not one large enough to maintain his hold on the premiership. Haviv Rettig Gur notes that this blow

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May 6, 2021

  1. The Current Negotiations Won’t Stop Iran from Getting Nuclear Weapons

    European intelligence agencies have found evidence of an ongoing quest for the bomb.

  2. Benjamin Netanyahu Lost His Chance to Form a Government Because His Voters Are Losing Faith in Him

    Policy successes and declining turnout.

  3. Fashionable Left-Wing Policies Are Endangering Jews

    New York City’s bail reform lets violent anti-Semites go free.

  4. Beneath Edward Said’s Confused Condemnations of Western Scholarship Lay His Own Insecurities

    Disoriented.

  5. The Jewish Role in Medieval Commerce and Finance

    The truth about an economic niche.