Israel : There were tussles outside Likud party headquarters in Jerusalem on Tuesday night, not between political opponents but between supporters wanting to catch a glimpse of party leader and former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
About 30 people, mostly young men, were desperate to see the man who was poised to return to power.
If the figures turn out to be right, the story of one of Israel’s most remarkable politicians, who is on trial for corruption, will go on for a few years more.
That would give likely coalition partners and potential future ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir time to try to pass radical policies, particularly towards the country’s judiciary, its Arab population and the secular part of the country’s identity.
Both men are striving to create a more conservative and religiously Jewish Israel.
