Israel Business Community Able to Live With Netanyahu Defeat

Days before Israel’s election, the country’s powerful business community is contemplating the real possibility that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may lose. It can live with that.

Once a favorite among industrialists for his dismantling of state-owned companies as finance minister a decade ago, Netanyahu is trailing in polls. His Likud Party faces enough of a threat from Isaac Herzog’s Zionist Union that on Thursday he told Channel 2 there was a “good chance” he would be defeated.