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Apr. 23, 2021 6:04 AM
The idea of breathing life into the prospect of direct election of the prime minister had already been brought up by Interior Minister Arye Dery (Shas) in the previous election rounds. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t go along. He was aiming for a decisive win in each of the second, third and fourth times around. When that didn’t happen, he allowed his close partner – with whom he speaks on the phone for hours every day, and in tense one-on-one meetings – to run with it. To make the vision a reality.
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Apr. 9, 2021 5:58 AM
Two principles are competing with one another at the moment, in the context of the knottiest coalition talks ever. The first is known as JNB, Just Not Bibi, and the other is NAE, Not Another Election. They aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive, but they produce entirely different negotiation paths. In them, all methods are kosher and all means are on the table. Any idea, no matter how hallucinatory, can be discussed. One path will lead to the sixth Benjamin Netanyahu government, the other to the revolutionary Naftali Bennett-Yair Lapid government.
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