Netanyahu rivals amp up efforts to oust prime minister following Gaza War

Published May 30, 2021 12:00am ET



A bloc of Israeli politicians is negotiating a power-sharing deal to drive Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from his position following a war in Gaza that may have wounded Netanyahu’s political prospects.

“For four elections, we’ve watched our beloved country tear itself apart, weaken itself, [and] lose its capacity to function,” Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett, a right-wing rival of Netanyahu, announced Sunday. “2,000 years ago, we lost a Jewish state here because of internal hatreds; that won’t happen again, not on my watch.”

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