There can be no question that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would like to hold an election as soon as possible.

The crisis over the draft deferment bill for yeshiva students may or not have been manufactured, but it was no more serious than dozens of crises the prime minister has defused since this government was sworn in three years ago.

He spent a week in the United States ignoring it and then when he finally returned, barely went through the motions of crisis resolution – while behind the scenes his aides worked on building a majority for a Knesset dissolution bill and snap elections on June 26.

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