The Deep Dive

Can Israel elections survive a two-front war?


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He advised Naftali Bennett. He ran strategic engagement at AIPAC. And he now says this is the most extreme government in Israel's history.

In this episode of The Deep Dive, host Jacob Laznik talks with Yisrael Klitsner, JPPI fellow, former Diaspora Affairs Advisor to PM Bennett, and former AIPAC strategic engagement director, about whether Israel can run an election in the middle of a two-front war, and whether the US-Israel bond survives the aftermath.

Klitsner argues the campaign comes down to "security, security, security," that Netanyahu "single-handedly made Ben-Gvir who he is," and that the widening rift with Diaspora Jewry now boils down to one message from Israel's American partners: "first, do no harm."

A mainstream pro-Israel insider's candid read on a country holding an election, fighting its longest war, and trying to hold its global family together at the same time.
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