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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu followed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir walk inside the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in Jerusalem March 27, 2025.

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Netanyahu’s coalition is crumbling

Israel’s ruling coalition is facing its most serious crisis yet. Two of the country’s ultra-Orthodox parties — United Torah Judaism and Shas — announced they are quitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government over proposed changes to long-standing rules that exempt ultra-Orthodox students from Israel’s military draft. The split is likely to collapse the coalition. The centrist opposition Yesh Atid party has already filed a motion to dissolve the Knesset, Israel’s legislature. A vote on that, set for June 11, is likely to succeed, triggering a general election by November.

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Podcast: How crisis can help us fix broken systems: from Ukraine to COVID

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Listen: To fix our broken international political system, we need a crisis. For instance, a pandemic, climate catastrophe, Big Tech having too much power, or a Russian invasion of Ukraine. But it must be a crisis that's so destructive it forces us to respond fast, and together — like World War II. That's the crisis that created the international system we have today, and kept the peace until now. On GZERO World, Ian Bremmer talks to Anne-Marie Slaughter, former US State Department official and now CEO of New America, and political scientist and Harvard professor Stephen Walt about the war and other crises.

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From crisis to opportunity: How 4 global threats can change the world for the better

From crisis to opportunity: How 4 global threats can change the world for the better

“You must be busy these days.” I get that a lot. I’ve been focused on geopolitical risk for over two decades, and there always seems to be a crisis ongoing that people want to hear more about. And they seem to believe that today was crazier than yesterday.

But my company was created in 1998, as a bloodbath in the former Yugoslavia reached crescendo, a financial crisis engulfed Southeast Asia, and Boris Yeltsin’s Russia defaulted on its debt.

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