@gorillapaws It isn’t that the majority of Israelis, or even a plurality of Israelis, voted in support of Netanyahu. It is that the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, has a large number of small, ultra-orthodox parties, which have been cobbled together to make a coalition majority to keep Bibi as Prime Minister.
Netanyahu’s party, Likud, has 30 seats in the Knesset. The next three largest parties have a total of 28 seats, all wanting a two-state solution.
But it takes 61 seats to have a majority, so Likud brokers with the far right. And Likud has to do what parties representing less than 5% wants, or the Government fails