
If Benjamin Netanyahu regains the premiership after Israel's election next month, it may be thanks to an ultranationalist firebrand whose romp into the mainstream has jolted voters otherwise exhausted by years of political deadlock.
Polls predict the joint list co-headed by Itamar Ben-Gvir's "Jewish Power" party will win as many as 13 of parliament's 120 seats, turning the 46-year-old into a potential kingmaker of a future conservative coalition.