Netanyahu’s struggle to form a coalition spells trouble for Kushner’s Mideast peace plan

Published May 29, 2019 8:13pm ET



President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, might have to shelve his long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace due to a dispute in Jerusalem that’s put Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future at stake.

The Israeli prime minister faces a midnight deadline to form a coalition government after seemingly emerging victorious in the April 9 parliamentary elections. He has so far been unable to come to a power-sharing agreement with any other party or faction.

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