{"id":14793,"date":"2026-04-27T13:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/explainer-netanyahus-rivals-are-joining-forces-would-they-shift-israels-security-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:24:06","slug":"explainer-netanyahus-rivals-are-joining-forces-would-they-shift-israels-security-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/explainer-netanyahus-rivals-are-joining-forces-would-they-shift-israels-security-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer-Netanyahu&#8217;s rivals are joining forces. Would they shift Israel&#8217;s security policy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>JERUSALEM, April 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Two of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s top rivals announced they would join forces in an upcoming election to oust his coalition government, with a focus mainly on domestic issues such as military conscription for the ultra-Orthodox. <\/p>\n<p>But on issues like Iran, Gaza and Lebanon, the joint party led by right-wing Naftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid is expected to pursue a security posture similar to that of Netanyahu &#8211; who heads the most right-wing government in Israel&#8217;s history &#8211; meaning Israel&#8217;s foreign policy would remain largely unchanged&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2026\/04\/explainer-netanyahus-rivals-are-joining-forces-would-they-shift-israels-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM, April 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Two of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s top rivals announced they would join forces in an upcoming&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3459,3511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-moyen-orient"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}