Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, November 24 2019. Picture: SEBASTIAN SCHEINER/AFP
His indictment on Thursday came amid unprecedented political disarray in Israel, after elections in April and September in which neither Netanyahu nor his main challenger, centrist Benny Gantz, secured a governing majority in parliament. Gantz’s mandate to form a government — after an unsuccessful attempt by Netanyahu to do so — expired on Wednesday. The next day, Israel’s president declared a three-week period in which legislators can nominate one of their own to try to put together a ruling coalition. Should that fail, a new election — Israel’s third in a year — will be triggered.
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