What Israel’s Election Tells Us About the State of the State at 75

Yossi Klein Halevi explores whether Israel’s inability to agree on a government speaks to larger challenges.
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Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is co-host, together with Donniel Hartman, of the Hartman Institute’s podcast, “For Heaven’s Sake” – the number one Jewish podcast in the English-speaking world. Halevi’s 2013 book, “Like Dreamers,” won the Jewish Book Council’s Everett Book of the Year Award. His latest book, “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor,” is a New York Times bestseller and has appeared in a dozen languages.

Israel’s fifth election in four years presented a particular political challenge that its founders could have never imagined. On November 14 at North Suburban Synagogue Beth El in Highland Park, Illinois Yossi Klein Halevi reflected on the results of Israel’s most recent election and explored Israel’s challenges as it approaches 75 years of statehood.

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