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Middle East correspondent Tom Joyner in Jerusalem

Benjamin Netanyahu has been a political magician for years. Has Israel's leader finally run out of tricks?

Benjamin Netanyahu triggered a huge wave of protests after proposing a judicial overhaul that would weaken the country's Supreme Court. (Reuters: Abir Sultan)

To an outsider, Israeli politics might resemble a chaotic cycle. In the past five years alone, there have been five elections punctuated by short-lived regimes and ruptured alliances.

And always, somehow at the centre of it all, is Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister. A man known among Israelis for his political cunning, and a knack for escaping even the tightest of binds.

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