Next week, the deadline for submitting Knesset slates expires, after which parties can no longer merge. The anti-Netanyahu bloc is encouraged as the prime minister is scrambling to prevent right-wing votes from going to waste

Despite polling under the electoral threshold, newly established right-wing factions seen as unlikely to agree on any sort of joint run until right before September 8 deadline

With candidate lists due soon, Netanyahu is trying to prevent right-wing votes from being wasted below Israel’s electoral threshold, but Ben-Gvir and newcomer Ofer Winter insist…