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Israeli Democracy Faces its Most Critical Test in the Upcoming Elections

Another coalition member has defected to the opposition, depriving Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett of his fragile parliamentary majority.
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Yossi Klein Halevi is a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Together with Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke University and Jennifer Raskas, he co-directs the Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative. Yossi is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor and co-host with Donniel Hartman and Elana Stein Hain of the Institute’s award-winning podcast, For Heaven’s Sake. He is also the author of Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli

“The fall was inevitable. The wildly diverse and unwieldly government headed by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had just marked its first anniversary when yet another coalition member defected to the opposition, depriving Mr. Bennett of his fragile parliamentary majority. It was only a matter of time before he conceded failure and summoned new elections – the country’s fifth in less than four years.”

Read the full op ed in The Globe and Mail

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