Two members of Israel's outgoing coalition government vowed, on Tuesday, to prevent a comeback by ex-premier Benjamin Netanyahu, their fellow right-winger, as the country braced for a fifth election in three years with polling predicting no clear winner, Reuters reports. Sapped by infighting that ended his razor-thin parliamentary majority, Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, on Monday announced he would move to dissolve the Knesset, with Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid assuming top office in a caretaker capacity. A preliminary vote on that motion is set for Wednesday. The prospect of an election as early as October delighted Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving leader who was toppled a year ago after Bennett mustered a rare coalition of hard-right, liberal and Arab politicians. "Something great happened […] Source
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