Netanyahu's armored stage raises eyebrows along campaign trail
With polls giving him 59-60 Knesset seats, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu is busily campaigning in neighborhoods where his party has lost influence.
With less than two months left until Israel goes to the polls, most polls indicate that opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu's right-ultra-Orthodox bloc would win 59-60 Knesset seats, just short of the majority needed to form a new government.
Only a seat or two stand between Netanyahu and the prime minister’s office. Should he fail to reach this goal, a member of his own camp could demand he be replaced.
The remaining leaders of the current government are quite clear in rejecting a coalition with Netanyahu, including current Prime Minister Yair Lapid, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman.
Netanyahu is concentrating on Likud voters who quit the party over his bribery trial or are likely to stay home on election day out of apathy or disgust with Israeli politics.
