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Ben Shapiro to JNS: Ben-Gvir’s security policies ‘are not so crazy’

JNS Jerusalem Bureau Chief Alex Traiman analyzes Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel election victory with Ben Shapiro on the Daily Wire.

(Nov. 3, 2022 / JNS)

Ben Shapiro and JNS Jerusalem Bureau Chief discuss key takeaways from Israel’s decisive fifth election campaign, which has once again crowned Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s prime minister. In the interview, Shapiro tells Traiman that he sees right-wing nationalist lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir’s security policies as “not so crazy.” Watch the full interview:

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