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US election results fuel Israeli opposition's push to remove Netanyahu
Nadav Rapaport11/4/2026
As news emerged on Wednesday that the Democratic Party had won a landslide victory , regaining control of the US Congress, Israeli politicians, journalists and experts warned of the results' grave implications for Israel 's national security, pointing to the declining standing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the US. Former Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid, who was re-elected to parliament last week as part of the centre-right Together alliance, said the US election results had "eliminated" any possibility of forming a unity government with Netanyahu.
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