Israel Sets New Election as Netanyahu Fails to Form Government
Benjamin Netanyahu on May 29.
Photographer: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images
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Israel’s parliament voted to dissolve itself and go to fresh elections Sept. 17 after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a government by Wednesday night’s deadline.
It was the first time an Israeli prime minister-designate couldn’t put together a ruling coalition after an election, and the first time the country will go to the polls twice in the space of months. Dispersing the legislature will block President Reuven Rivlin from tapping another person -- and possibly another party -- to try to assemble a government.