Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election last week was more than a personal victory. The Likud Party, within which the prime minister emerged and which he leads—has now been in government in Israel for 32 of the past 42 years. That’s a remarkable record in a parliamentary democracy. What explains this long run of success? Likud, and the movements that preceded it and of which it is composed, have succeeded in cracking the political DNA of a sizable component of the Israeli Jewish population, and in developing policies, rhetoric and...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 17, 2019 22:53 UTC