Israel goes back to elections as Netanyahu fails to form coalition | Jerusalem Post

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NZFOI: Just a reminder that Israel goes back to the Polls next month…

Exactly one month after the 21st Knesset were sworn in, a majority of the Knesset voted late Wednesday (May 29) to disperse themselves and initiate an unprecedented repeat election on September 17.

It was the first time in Israeli history that a candidate for prime minister failed to form a coalition after being given the task by the president after an election.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Likud faction ahead of the vote that he had not succeeded in reaching a compromise with Yisraeli Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman on the controversial haredi (ultra-Orthodox) conscription bill, and that he had also tried unsuccessfully to woo MKs from the opposition to join his government.

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