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One Man Is Stitching Together Israel's Impossible Government – for Now

One person just prevented Israelis from potentially having another election in September. It wasn’t Meretz lawmaker Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi

Anshel Pfeffer
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Is a coalition crisis that lasted less than 72 hours and ended with no damage to the governing coalition still a crisis? In a coalition that no longer has a Knesset majority and when one more defector could bring down the government and send Israelis to the polls yet again, it is.

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