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Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

I'm Rosie Bloor.

Today on the show, will America keep supporting Africa's counter-terrorism efforts?

And as the World Cup approaches, Cape Verde is competing for the first time.

First up, though, It would be an understatement to say that binuman Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, is a political survivor.

Though the collapse of Israel's government has repeatedly been predicted in the past couple of years

and many have wished for it, only now begins the campaign and the fight for Netanyahu's future.

Today, the Knesset-Igels Parliament will begin voting on a dissolution bill.

Anjoffeffer is our Israel correspondent and the author of a biography of Bin Yomernetan Yahoo. This may bring the election forward perhaps the beginning of September.

As it is, the election is supposed to take place at the latest by the end of October.

So whatever the date turns out to be, it also already need the in-election season.

As so many Israeli elections over the last decade or so,

this will also be yet again a referendum on Netanyahu's prime minister.

So his career, his political future is on the line.

Just tell me what's triggered this vote now.

So the most immediate trigger of the vote is a dispute between Netanyahu and the ultra-Orthodox

parties of his coalition.

He promised them four years ago that this government

would pass a law exempting students of religious seminaries from National Service, serving in the

army mainly. He's failed to do that so far and they've finally given up on waiting. And this also may be

the end of his very long and very strong alliance

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