President Donald Trump defended Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he failed to form a coalition on Wednesday and a vote passed to dissolve government. That triggered new elections in Israel for September. The World’s Marco Werman speaks with Michael Koplow, the policy director at the Israel Policy Forum in Washington, about what’s next for the country and what this means for US-Israel relations.
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