On June 13th, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid managed to form a government, but how did we get here? Politics are complicated, especially Israeli politics.
Why do Israelis keep having elections? What parties make up the Knesset - Israel’s parliament? A party needs at least 61 seats to form a government, but no single party has ever come close to winning that many seats, which means that parties have had to team up with one another to form a “Coalition Government.” Currently, getting those 61 seats has proved more of a challenge than ever, causing Israelis to go to the polls four times in three years. Will the Lapid-Bennett government last?
This video will help you make heads and tails of what you read in the news - the issues at hand, the various politicians, what “right” and “left” even means anymore, and how one man - Benjamin Netanyahu - managed to eclipse even the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:46 Jewish and democratic state
01:02 How do Israeli elections, parties, and coalitions work?
02:27 Personalities are more important than parties
02:47 The Joint List - Aran nationalists and Communists
03:41 Ra'am - Religious Muslims
04:17 Shas - Mizrahi Haredim
04:37 United Torah Judaism - Ashkenazi Haredim
05:22 Religious nationalist parties
05:38 Yisrael Beytenu - Secular right and Russian Jews
05:51 Meretz and Labor
06:20 Likkud - Right
06:45 Yesh Atid - Centrist
07:03 Blue and White - Centrist
07:27 What Left and Right mean in Israeli politics
08:38 Pro-Bibi and anti-Bibi Netanyahu blocs
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