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Benjamin Netanyahu Israel is heading towards its fourth election in two years, March 23. Here is what we may reasonably expect this time. Midnight yesterday was the deadline for declaring parties. There were mergers and droppings-out on the right and on the left. In Israeli politics, a governing coalition needs to principally garner a majority of 61 seats out of the 120 Knesset seats, and this is done by coalitions of smaller parties. Yet there is a threshold level of 3.25% (4 seats) which is an incentive against being too fragmented, because if a party falls below the threshhold, its votes may be lost. The biggest single party in Israeli politics today is Likud, by far. It currently polls at around 30 seats. It used to have a rival bloc called Blue and White. That centrist bloc, led by Benny Gantz (who came into politics two years ago boasting of having bombed Gaza back to the “stone age” as army Chief of Staff) is now not even clearing the electoral threshold in the r

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