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Haviv Rettig Gur is The Times of Israel s senior analyst.
Then-MKs Gideon Sa ar, right, and Naftali Bennett in the Knesset plenum on February 24, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Last week, Naftali Bennett looked set to become Israel’s inevitable next prime minister. This week, with Likud MK Gideon Sa’ar announcing his own run for the premiership, a clear-cut race just got complicated.
An election hasn’t been called yet. It too was all but inevitable just a week ago; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had left Blue and White leader Benny Gantz with nothing to lose, no longer even pretending to intend to follow through on their rotation agreement.