As Netanyahu looks to cobble together his
farthest-right coalition yet, western democratic governments and diaspora Jewish leaders need to take a stand
The biggest winners in Tuesday’s Israeli election appear to be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the little-known Religious Zionist Party. (Though Netanyahu still lack a few deputies to form a government)
Behind the milquetoast name is an alliance of some of the most extreme
Kahanist elements in Israeli politics.
According to the results announced so far, a race that had been predicted as a virtual tie between centrist and rightist parties may offer Netanyahu a narrow path to a renewed term as prime minister.