Will the Netanyahu government survive the proposed hostage deal?

JERUSALEM – With a hostage deal apparently as good as done, although intense public scrutiny and the myriad of messages emanating from Israel, the United States, Hamas, and Qatar and others, has yet to produce concrete results, the prospect of the agreement’s signing has shifted some of the focus in Israel to what will happen within the country if it is finally done.

From a practical political perspective, two of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition partners ...