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(CNN Spanish) -
Known in his country as "the magician", Benjamin Netanyahu managed in the past to overcome innumerable political battles that seemed lost.
However, today he is facing what appears to be the greatest political challenge he has ever faced and which could remove him from power after 15 uninterrupted years.
Will you be able to avoid it?
Listen to the new episode of
Global Challenges
with José Levy.
A real political earthquake in Israel.
It seems closer and closer that the head of government, Benjamin Netanyahu, has to leave power.
It would be after fifteen years - it is said soon - of having been appointed prime minister.
The last twelve, uninterrupted.
Never has another head of government in his country been in power for so long.
But that count of years - until now unstoppable - could change already in the coming days.
It turns out that more than ten weeks after Israel's fourth general election in two years, and after countless attempts, on Wednesday eight political parties finally signed an agreement to form a coalition, where the key unifying factor is ending the Netanyahu government.
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Yes indeed.
Never in the history of Israel has there been an attempt to form a coalition so diverse, so complex, so… fragile.
Made up of parties from the entire political spectrum, from the most nationalist right to the pacifist left, and even, for the first time in the history of Israel, with a Palestinian Arab party of Islamist ideology, of course, of Israeli nationality. .
Naftali Bennett, the man who would replace Netanyahu 3:58
If until now these political formations that represent the Arab population focused on rejecting the unacceptable Israeli policies for them with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, now the party, called Raam, assures that the time has come to address responsibly the internal problems of this Palestinian population that represents a fifth of Israeli society.
Housing problems, budgets and, also, linked to the worrying crime that has developed within this community in recent years.
A government coalition that, if formed, wants to heal wounds in what is the complexity of Israeli society with people of different ideologies and religions.
Listen to it in full on the podcast.
Well, so far this podcast, José Levy spoke to you.
Next week we will continue with more "Global Challenges" that will present us with this terrible or wonderful passionate corner of the universe where we lived.
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