Can Israeli democracy survive with Netanyahu?

While elections in Israel are never boring, the results are certainly getting a little predictable.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured in Ottawa in 2012, seems to have made his choice between Israel being a Jewish state and a democratic one, writes Lisa Van Dusen.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

March 13, 2019

Israel’s democracy, existing as it has as an island surrounded by non-democracies, has a reputation for being that beautiful euphemism for an array of scrappy qualities: “robust.” Debate in Israel is not for the faint of heart, running for a seat in the Knesset is no more for the squeamish tha...

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