Netanyahu fails to form a coalition, Israel to redo elections

[Nahash]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-fails-to-form-coalition-mks-vote-for-new-elections-on-september-17/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-set-to-vote-to-disband-as-pms-final-offer-to-resolve-crisis-rejected/

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday night issued his “final offer” to Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu and the ultra-Orthodox parties on the contentious enlistment bill, which was promptly turned down by the key prospective coalition partners and drew an angry response from some of the premier’s longstanding Haredi allies.
The rejection paved the way for the dissolution of the Knesset and new elections on September 17 — an unprecedented second election in a matter of months — with the final votes to disband parliament set for 11:30 p.m. and the outcome of the late-night vote yet unknown.
Hours before a midnight deadline to form the coalition, both the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism and Yisrael Beytenu turned down Netanyahu’s offer that would have advanced the Defense Ministry version of a bill regulating the draft of the ultra-Orthodox into the military, but would not guarantee it would ever pass into law.

Liberman has repeatedly said he backs Netanyahu for prime minister, but will only join the government if there is a commitment to pass, unaltered, a version of the bill promoted during the previous Knesset. That draft of the bill is opposed by ultra-Orthodox parties, which want to soften its terms. Netanyahu needs both Yisrael Beytenu and the Knesset’s ultra-Orthodox parties to form a majority government.

Israel’s parliament votes to dissolve itself after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to meet the midnight deadline to form a new government, triggering an unprecedented second national election this year.

TLDR: Netanyahu's coalition needed a majority of seats in the Knesset, he needed 5 more seats for that majority and was courting a russian secular party to join him. The secular party wanted a law requiring a slight increase in the drafting of Orthodox Jewish soldiers to the IDF and the religious parties that made up the rest of Netanyahu's coalition refused. They stalemated until the deadline for a government passed and now there's elections again.

[Clovis]

There's a Russian party in Israel?

[Nahash]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yisrael_Beiteinu

They were formed to cater to Russian Jewish immigrants and still do

[Saint Furrybutt]

I hope this time, Netanyahu is never not getting that PM seat again, and hopefully their moderate/left-leaning candidate can take Israel to be less controversial for a long time.