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What Next - How Much Longer Can Netanyahu Hold On?

What Next - How Much Longer Can Netanyahu Hold On?

His coalition has held through the war, but a shortage of military manpower is exposing fissures.

Slate Daily Feed · Slate

April 4, 202421m 13s

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Show Notes

Benjamin Netanyahu has been able to count on the support from Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties. But as the IDF needs additional manpower to continue a two-front war, the military exemption that the ultra-Orthodox enjoy is coming under scrutiny, and could fracture Netanyahu’s hold on power.


Guest: Yair Rosenberg, staff writer for The Atlantic.


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