JERUSALEM—Israel’s president tasked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sept. 25 with assembling a new government after power-sharing talks with his strongest rival, Benny Gantz, failed following an inconclusive election.
Netanyahu, head of the right-wing Likud party, and Israel’s longest-serving leader, still has no clear path to a fifth term after emerging from the Sept. 17 ballot, the second this year, short of a parliamentary majority.
