ISRAEL
‘We are in the abyss’
Defeat shatters the left, page 15 →
For Palestine, this means nothing
Yara Hawari, page 16 →
Don’t call it a comeback. Benjamin Netanyahu was booted from office last summer by a broad coalition united by their distaste for the conservative Likud leader. But after last Tuesday’s election – an unprecedented fifth poll in less than four years – the short-lived “government of change” looks likely to prove no more than a brief intermission in the political behemoth’s long career.
Having won a decisive majority, the former prime minister has
