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Only One Thing Holds the New Israeli Coalition Together
Naftali Bennett, the new prime-minister designate, will lead a motley coalition of parties intent on keeping Benjamin Netanyahu from power.
Leader of a fragile coalition.
Photographer: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images
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The new and bewilderingly heterogeneous coalition of rivals that is now forming a government in Israel owes its existence to one man: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Its members are not friends. They do not share an ideology or a common platform. They are so divided on contentious foreign policy and domestic issues that they have pledged to avoid them completely. They have come together for the sole purpose of getting rid of Bibi.