by Assaf Mishnayot and Hillel Fendel
Following a week's worth of doubts, it now appears nearly absolutely, certainly, 100% sure – almost – that a new government will not be formed in the current Knesset. Instead, general elections will be held in late October or early November, after the High Holidays and Sukkot.
In Israeli politics, of course, the only real certainty is that we can never actually know what will happen. Despite continued rushed efforts to find 61 MKs who will agree to band together in a new coalition headed by either Binyamin Netanyahu and/or the leader of a different party in rotation, it now truly seems that no such combination will be found before Wednesday night, at which time the final vote will be held to dissolve the Knesset.
