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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calls for an end to Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Israel.

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It's Thursday March 14th. I'm Anne-Marie Fertoli for the Wall Street Journal. This is the PM edition of What's News,

the top headlines and business stories that moved the world today.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling for new elections in Israel, saying

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quote has lost his way.

Schumer is the highest ranking Jewish elected official in the US government.

He delivered a speech on the Senate floor earlier today.

I believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel,

at a time when so many Israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government.

Schumer's speech is the latest in a series of high-level warnings and White House actions

aimed at pressuring Israel to allow more aid into Gaza and rethink its war plans for Hamas,

whose deadly attack on Israel sparked the war in October. The address marked an unusually direct

criticism of the democratically elected leader of a close ally

and sparked sharp pushback from congressional Republicans and from Israel's ambassador to the U.S.

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