It's Friday, November 11, 2022.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

Lots to talk about and think about this week, especially about the midterm elections,

but we're going to hold further comment and analysis on those stories until next week.

And one reason is that we still have returns that are coming in very slowly, and some

of those might not be in even over the weekend, but we should have at least a clearer picture

of what we're looking at in the political and moral landscape of the United States.

But now I want us to turn from the United States to Israel, because in the big news of the

last several days has been the rise again, a former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,

to be the political leader, the head of government in Israel, because not only were elections

held in the United States, but elections were also held in Israel.

But Israel has had so many government elections of late, because there have been so many government

crises that this really turns out to be a very big story, especially since you may remember

that Benjamin Netanyahu was Prime Minister of Israel as recently as about a year ago,

but he left in the light of a scandal and the breakup of his political coalition.

But he's back and he's back arguably even stronger.

There's a bit of background here that I think will be particularly interesting to Christians.

One of the things we need to recognize is that the Israeli election that will bring Benjamin

Netanyahu back to power is one that underlines in a new and emphatic way the religious character

of Israel as a nation, or at least the religious character of the coalition that will bring

Netanyahu back to office as Prime Minister.

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