A bill sponsored by Israel’s opposition Labor Party to call for early elections is likely to pass the Knesset on Monday, according to Israeli political observers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may forestall that vote by calling for new elections himself, a move that would spare him a humiliating defeat at the hands of the opposition.
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