Israel’s Netanyahu Accepts Proposal for Budget Negotiation Extension, Avoiding New Election

(JERUSALEM) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that he had accepted a proposal to extend budget negotiations, preventing the government from collapsing and plunging the country into a new election. In a nationally televised address, Netanyahu said that now was not the time to drag the country into a fourth parliamentary election in less than two years. “Now is the time for unity. Not for elections,” he said. Netanyahu and his rival and coalition partne