Netanyahu and his Likud are running out of time to survive the March 17 ballot

Five days before Israel’s snap election, people who have seen Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu close up say he looks weary and, behind his controlled façade, shocked to discover that his Likud party faces the real possibility of being thrown out of office on March 17. At a meeting of the party faithful, Wednesday, March 11,  he warned – not once but again and again – that if they don’t get a move on fast, Israel could be stuck with “Bougie and Tzipi”  [Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni co-leaders of the opposition Zionist Camp] as prime ministers.

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