Netanyahu called for new elections | Faced with the failure …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for new elections after failing to form a coalition government. The new elections will take place on September 17th.

After an intense session of heated debate, which lasted until after midnight on Wednesday, Parliament (Knesset) voted for its own dissolution and for the convening of new elections. "I have done everything to prevent these unnecessary elections," Netanyahu said after the vote. It's a failure for Netanyahu, who failed to form a coalition while his party and his religious and right-wing partners had won enough seats in the April 9 elections.

The conflict that prevented the formation of a coalition and that had already triggered the early convocation of the last elections revolves around the text of the law that imposes conscription to compulsory military service for ultra-Orthodox Jews. The law was requested by the Israel Our Home party, led by former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, one of the key partners of the right-wing and religious coalition that Netanyahu attempted to achieve. Lieberman called for the law to be approved without change, but the ultra-Orthodox parties, whose support for the prime minister was also essential, called for changes so that its population could continue to avoid military service. Lieberman prevented a coalition agreement by refusing to waive this request, which was enough for the five seats of his party to cancel all efforts of Netanyahu, who had tried to mediate between the parliamentary groups until the last minutes before the expiry of the term. term to form a coalition.

US President Donald Trump, Netanyahu's political ally, lamented yesterday that Israel had called for new elections. The Prime Minister not only received Trump's message of support, but also met with the tycoon's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the special envoy of the White House for Israel, Jason Greenblatt. Both went on the peace proposal drafted by the Trump administration. During the meeting with Netanyahu, they discussed the details of the Bahrain Economic Forum to be held on June 25-26 and where the Americans should reveal the economic side of their peace proposal for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine has already announced that no Palestinian faction will attend the conference organized by the United States.