Israel’s Wartime Government Just Collapsed. Does It Matter?
The political math favors Netanyahu, with or without Benny Gantz.
Yair Rosenberg
Yair Rosenberg is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Deep Shtetl, about the intersection of politics, culture, and religion. Previously a senior writer at Tablet Magazine, he has also written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian, and his work has received recognition from the Religion News Association and the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies.
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