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Four days to the deadline: Can Netanyahu form a government?

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Published: 24 May 2019

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Several of his potential partners are toying with a simple move that could mean his political end: doing nothing

Can doing nothing bring down Netanyahu? (Al-monitor) 
With the days allotted by law for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new government soon to expire, some of his potential partners have adopted a tactic that could mean his political end.

Seven days in May: Moshe Kahlon’s chance to save Israeli democracy from Netanyahu (Times of Israel) 
Finance Minister said last year the PM would have to go if he were indicted. As Netanyahu now seeks legislation to keep himself out of the dock, Kahlon is best-placed to stop him

Photo: Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, left, and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset in 2015. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
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