JERUSALEM: Members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition accused the embattled premier on Sunday of perpetuating a “fake crisis” over a political dispute to potentially force early elections. Polls suggest he could remain prime minister and his Likud party could win the most seats in fresh elections despite police investigations into his affairs. “Over the past week we’ve baked a good solution for the draft crisis. It’s a fake crisis,” Education Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, told reporters ahead of Sunday’s cabinet meeting. “All the rest is a fake crisis.”The ultra-Orthodox parties are refusing to approve the 2019 budget unless the conscription bill passes.

Source: New Strait Times March 11, 2018 16:52 UTC