{"id":25063,"date":"2019-09-23T15:55:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T14:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25063"},"modified":"2019-09-23T15:55:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T14:55:40","slug":"what-now-for-israel-a-new-coalition-government-or-yet-another-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25063","title":{"rendered":"What now for Israel: a new coalition government or yet another general election?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The final results are now in for the second general election in Israel in 2019 &#8211; the first time in the history of the country that two polls have been held in the same year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu &#8211; the longest-serving premier in the history of the nation &#8211; failed to lead his Likud party to the largest number of seats and so his main opponents Blue and White will now try to form a coalition with majority support in the Knesset. If coalition talks fail again, yet another general election is not out of the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a guide to the Israeli political system and the results of this month&#8217;s election, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Israelipoliticalsystem.html\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final results are now in for the second general election in Israel in 2019 &#8211; the first time in the history of the country that two polls have been held in the same year. Incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu &#8211; the longest-serving premier in the history of the nation &#8211; failed to lead his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25065,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063\/revisions\/25065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}