Israel’s new government is made up of eight parties that don’t see eye to eye with one another on many key issues. Will this government of clashing ideologies actually work, and what can we learn from the theory of a “team of rivals”?

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Sources

• https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/opinion/naftali-bennett-for-israel-two-state-is-no-solution.html
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• https://unpacked.education/podcast/the-assassination-of-yitzhak-rabin/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGxU-C2DfOE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6vipTtT-uY

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