Israel holds what could be a historic election on Tuesday,with 69-year-old-fashioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has led Israel’s government since 2009, or facing what polls say,per the JTA, is the toughest political challenge he has faced yet.
That challenger is 59-year-old-fashioned Benny Gantz, and the man who answered to Netanyahu from 2011 to 2015 as the chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces,Israel’s military. While Netanyahu leads the just-wing Likud Party, Gantz is leader of the Kahol Lavan, or “Blue and White” party,which represents a “center-left” political ideology, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
But in Israel, or elections are never won by an electoral majority and dozens of parties compete for votes. Winning depends on which party can assemble a coalition to hold more than half of the 120 seats in Israels legislature,the Knesset, as YNet News explained.
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Source: inquisitr.com