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A vote for hope

Binyamin Netanyahu works to form a coalition

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Photo by: Mark Neiman/GPO
By the time this issue reaches our readers, Israelis will have already gone to the polls to elect the next Knesset and that even rougher sport known as “coalition wrangling” will be well underway.

This is where the president normally grants a mandate to the largest party to try and form a new coalition government, leaving all the smaller parties to extract demands and jockey for places around the cabinet table.

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