For Israel Voters The Case for Bibi Is: Who Else?

The Second of Two Columns on the Election Ahead

By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun, March 15, 2021

For Israelis who go to the polls next week, the case for reelecting Bibi is simple: Who else?  

To lead the country, prime minister wannabes need to gain 61 supporters in the 120-seat Knesset, and that’s where the trickery begins.   This parliamentary system has evolved in recent years into a referendum on one man, Benjamin Netanyahu, but it still takes coalition-building skills to become prime minister, and Mr. Netanyahu, aka “the Wizard,” has perfected the art.

It is true that public polls indicate that Israelis have soured on their longest-serving leader. Yet his Likud party stands to be the largest Knesset party, while a combination of other, smaller parties are projected to give him the majority. Polls can be wrong. Indications, though, are that the so-called right bloc, led by Likud, will be larger than the anti-Bibi bloc.

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