The first in a series of Washington Institute articles about the upcoming vote discusses how the rival coalitions are shaping up, why extremists are gaining ground on the right, and which policy issues are most likely to steer the national debate.
Bezalel Smotrich argues Arab legislators 'first to lead the hostile discourse against Israel and against its right to exist'; Joint List's Touma-Sliman hits back, labeling him 'racist Jewish supremacist'
Israel Democracy Institute survey shows number of Jewish voters who declare to be right-wing spiked to 62%, compared to 46% in April 2019; same survey in 1986 showed 39% of Jewish Israelis identified as right-wing