Netanyahu's chances of winning elections in Israel assessed

It will be difficult for any political force in Israel to form a government based on the results of the current parliamentary elections. Luiza Khlebnikova, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Jewish Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, and head of the Interdepartmental Scientific Group for the Study of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, spoke about this in an interview with Lenta.ru.

“No party will receive an absolute majority, so the winner will have to conduct political bargaining and negotiate with other forces to create a unified and, ideally, stable coalition,” she explained.

This applies to both the opposition and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. According to the political scientist, it is important for him to create a broader coalition and ensure its sustainability, while most recently he had tensions with current coalition partners.

Moreover, Netanyahu faces a difficult dilemma. “The Prime Minister cannot form a government without ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties. However, an alliance with them complicates the attraction of other right-wing forces into the coalition that advocate extending military conscription to Haredim,” the expert noted.