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Five challenges for Israels new government Naftali Bennetts inherently unstable coalition faces both domestic and foreign pressures that could easily tear it apart. Israels incoming government has one basic problem: it is very heterogeneous, with nine parties spanning ideological extremes, from Yamina and New Hope on the right to Labor and Meretz on the left. In order to survive, it will have to avoid dealing with controversial matters that represent core promises of individual parties, from LH...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies are dragging out the political process, seeking to undermine a new government set to remove him from power, as the head of the Israel Security Agency warned of incitement to violence in the charged environment.

In his struggle to remain Israeli prime minister, Benyamin Netanyahu is following the destructive policies his friend and ally Donald Trump has adopted to reclaim the presidency in the US. 

Assuming they have a Knesset majority in favour, a new Israeli coalition government, led by Naftali Bennett, will be sworn in on Sunday.

From the blog of Jonathan Muskat at The Times of Israel

  >> Roger Cohen, The New York Times  Published: 09 Jun 2021 09:14 AM BdST Updated: 09 Jun 2021 12:32 PM BdST hen President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they participate in an Abraham Accords signing ceremony at the White House in Washington on Sept 15, 2020. The New York Times For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel is witnessing “the greatest election fraud in the history of the country.” For Donald Trump, defeat last November was “the crime o...

Shas head Aryeh Deri gives a press statement (together with UTJ MK Moshe Gafni and Yaakov Litzman) at the Knesset, June 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) 1. In like Elkin: While last week the new “change bloc” government was on its way to power with a big question mark hanging over it, it now appears to be inevitable, with could-be rebels seemingly staying in line and inter-coalition crinkles getting smoothed out. All three major dailies (even Israel Hayom) run front-page headlines declarin...

New Hope party head Gideon Saar joins coalition negotiations at the Maccabiah village in Ramat Gan on June 1, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) New Hope party leader Gideon Sa’ar will get extra security starting Wednesday, becoming the fifth lawmaker to have security boosted amid an alarming rise in threats linked to the looming government transition. Knesset sergeant-at-arms Yosef Grif ordered that bodyguards be deployed to protect Sa’ar, Hebrew-language news outlets reported Tuesday. Accordin...

From the blog of James J. Marlow at The Times of Israel

BICOM 9th June 2021 What happened: Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin confirmed yesterday that MKs will convene on Sunday, 13 June, to vote on the new government and swear in Naftali Bennett as the next prime minister of Israel. Yamina MK Nir Orbach announced yesterday that he has decided to vote in favour of the new government. In a long Facebook post he explained, “I am not taking this path with happiness or enthusiasm, I am taking it precisely because i...