Benjamin Netanyahu faces an election defined by religious versus secular issues, a “sea change” in the country’s left-right politics
TEL AVIV—Israel’s surprise elections have thrust one man and one issue into the spotlight: Avigdor Lieberman, a bitter right-wing rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who says he is trying to stop the country from becoming a religious state.
The rift between Messrs. Lieberman and Netanyahu is laying bare the tension between religious and secular Israelis that has pulsed through Israeli society since the country’s 1948 founding. Mr. Netanyahu is a secular politician, but Mr. Lieberman and others have seethed as the prime...
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