New Benyamin Netanyahu major political crisis in Israel

Voters who went to the polls on April 9 to elect their representatives to Parliament will have to return to the polls on September 17. An unprecedented situation in the history of the Jewish state due to the inability of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to form a coalition government.
It was shortly before midnight that the parliamentarians opened the fateful meeting in an atmosphere of great tension. Clenched, face closed, Benyamin Netanyahu voted for, as 74 deputies out of 140, the text proposed on his initiative by his party, the Likud. In a last and desperate attempt he had tried to poach Labor to overcome the defection of Avigdor Lieberman's right-wing secular and nationalist Israel Beiteinou party. The former defense minister did not want to rule with ultra-orthodox representatives because they refused conscription. During nighttime psychodrama, Avigdor Lieberman locked himself in his Knesset office. According to a photo published this morning by the daily Yediot Ahoronot, he was watching on television a program entitled "A Great Country", a satire of the Israeli political class in which he is often mocked........