The Israeli prime minister’s career looked finished after the October 7 attack by Hamas. But now he is pursuing a conflict he has proposed for years.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the site of the Weizmann Institute of Science, which was hit by missiles fired from Iran, in the central city of Rehovot. AP
Not for the first time in his almost 18 years as Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was wobbling.
Israel’s opposition had called a vote last week to dissolve the parliament and – infuriated by Netanyahu’s repeated failure to pass a law exempting religious students from military service – the two ultraorthodox parties in Netanyahu’s far-right coalition were threatening to back it.
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