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Will the Israeli government fall?

“Israel Insider” with Ashley Perry

On this week’s “Israel Insider,” Perry examines the question of whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can reconcile his coalition partners’ demands and the unprecedented pressure from domestic protests and foreign critics, or whether the government might fall.

---- “Israel Insider with Ashley Perry,” produced and hosted by the Middle East Forum (MEF). Each week, Ashley Perry, a former senior Israeli government adviser, provides insight into what’s behind the headlines in Israel. You can join live every Wednesday at 3 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. U.K. time and 10 p.m. Israel time here, or catch it on Youtube, Apple Podcasts and Sound Cloud the following day.

Perry served as an adviser to Israel’s minister of foreign affairs and deputy prime minister from 2009-15; he has also worked in the Prime Minister’s Office and with Israel’s ministers of intelligence, defense, tourism, energy, national infrastructure and water, agriculture, internal security, immigrant absorption, as well as with the chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. He has served as director of communications for presidents, prime ministers, and political parties outside Israel and served as an adviser and consultant to many governments, public figures and organizations.

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