Netanyahu Is Falling. That Won't Fix Israel.
The Israeli government is collapsing over a draft fight. The catastrophe it has built will outlast the man at the top. Published on efiretemple.com • May 2026 Israel's ruling coalition has called for an early election. The cause is not the war in Gaza, not the strikes on Beirut, not the famine, not the international isolation. It is a domestic fight over whether ultra-Orthodox men have to serve in the army. The vote to dissolve the Knesset is expected to pass next week.
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The Israeli government is collapsing over a draft fight. The catastrophe it has built will outlast the man at the top. Published on efiretemple.com • May 2026 Israel's ruling coalition has called for an early election. The cause is not the war in Gaza, not the strikes on Beirut, not the famine, not the international isolation. It is a domestic fight over whether ultra-Orthodox men have to serve in the army. The vote to dissolve the Knesset is expected to pass next week. Israelis will likely go to the polls in late August, two months before the government's mandated term ends in October. If the polls hold, Benjamin Netanyahu will lose. The most likely successor is a joint ticket fronted by former prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid. The most extreme members of the current cabinet — Bezalel Smotrich, Itamar Ben-Gvir — will lose their portfolios.