Ron Schleifer, PhD
(Senior lecturer at the School of Communication in Ariel University, Israel)
Copyright: @ 2023 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 20 August 2023
Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Re-search Institute for European and American Studies
The results of Israel’s November 2022 democratic elections brought about an absolute parliamentary majority for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition of fellow right-wing, nationalist parties, while at the same time involving losses for Israel’s left-wing camp. The Left declines to accept the new political reality as it fears major changes in the economic and bureaucratic fields, which it has managed to avoid despite the official political shift to the right when Menachem Begin came to power in 1977... Read more