Israeli politics and the continuing fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic dominated Jewish concerns this year.
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1. Benjamin Netanyahu is ousted as Israeli prime minister.
In June, after four indecisive elections in two years, Israeli leaders Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid assembled a broad-based coalition that enabled Bennett to replace Netanyahu as prime minister. In power for 15 years, Netanyahu was the longest-serving PM in the nation’s history.
An early major achievement of the new coalition was the Israeli parliament’s adoption of a national budget, something that had not been done for three years.