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Although weakened, Benyamin Netanyahu hopes to form the next Israeli government. REUTERS / Ammar Awad

Benyamin Netanyahu's coalition arrived with Benny Gantz on Tuesday, but did not win a majority in parliament. And the negotiations are difficult. So he gave up going to the UN General Assembly next week.

With our correspondent in Jerusalem, Guilhem Delteil

Benyamin Netanyahu cherishes major international meetings that allow him to meet leaders from around the world. The United Nations General Assembly in New York is one of them.

Situation of Netanyahu " precarious "

But Lahav Harkov, a political journalist with the daily Jerusalem Post , said the tight results of the legislative elections forced him to cancel the trip this year. " I think Netanyahu's situation is so precarious right now that he needs to focus on it if he wants to stay as Prime Minister, " she says. If it is given the mission to form a coalition, it will have a deadline to achieve it. And so every day, every hour counts. "

A time factor that is essential. But perhaps as little gain from his planned meeting with Donald Trump, Dan Shapiro said. He was the US ambassador to Israel under the Obama administration. " If he felt it could help him point out to his potential coalition partners and the Israeli public that he really needed to find a way to keep him, I think he would have done it. trip, he analyzes. And it can be a sign that Trump is starting to take a little distance from Netanyahu. "

Relationship "with Israel"

On Wednesday night, the US president also stressed that the relationship of his administration " is with Israel ", a way of marking that he could accommodate another Prime Minister.

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