Netanyahu again in center stage as Israel heads towards elections
Israelis are preparing for their fifth election in less than four years. But one man seems jubilant at the prospect: Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
JERUSALEM — With weary familiarity, Israelis are preparing for their fifth election in less than four years. But at least one man is jubilant at the prospect of a new vote and a possible new chapter in a remarkable political life.
Charismatic and divisive former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ousted last year by a fragile coalition of rivals from across the right, center and left who came together in an effort to break his more than a decadelong hold on power.
Now that government has collapsed, opening the door for Netanyahu to sweep back into power on a nationalistic right-wing slate.
Even before the Knesset took its first preliminary vote Wednesday to disperse, Netanyahu, also known as “Bibi,” couldn’t stop beaming.
“The winds have changed,” a jubilant Netanyahu, who heads Israel’s opposition and its largest right-wing party, the Likud, told reporters Monday night, after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced that he was disbanding his government.
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