Benjamin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid (photo credit: Miriam Alster, Moshe Shai/Flash90)
The combined Likud-Israel Beytenu list posted a weak showing in Tuesday’s election, dropping markedly from its 42 seats in the current Knesset.
On the left, party leaders and activists gloated at the weakening of the governing party.
But in a system of multilateral coalition-building such as Israel’s, the interests of the ruling party are not necessarily those of its leader.
While the Likud is weakened, what Netanyahu is facing is far from a nightmare scenario. Rather, he is presented with a fateful choice — between a right-haredi bloc and a center-right alliance.
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