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Last year, Abbas made history as the first Arab-Israeli political leader to join an Israeli governing coalition. This fall, voters will decide if he's gone too far for his own supporters, or not far enough
Israel's unlikely coalition government, the first ever backed by an Arab party, was forged a year ago to oust right-wing premier Benjamin Netanyahu, but ultimately collapsed over the Palestinian conflict.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is working to hold his fractious coalition together after a split on the right and an Arab-Israeli party's threat to quit over violence in Jerusalem.