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HARDtalk: Isaac Herzog - Chairman of the Labor Party, Israel

20/04/2015

Isaac Herzog - Chairman of the Labor Party, Israel

BBC News - HARDtalk, Isaac Herzog - Chairman of the Labor Party, Israel

Stephen Sackur talks to Isaac Herzog, defeated by Likud in the 2015 Israeli election.

Stephen Sackur speaks to the man Benjamin Netanyahu defeated in the battle for Israel's premiership, Isaac Herzog. What does he and the Israeli left do now?

There was a clear winner in last month's Israeli election but there isn't yet a new Government. Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu is taking his time, talking to smaller right wing and religious parties, but also according to rumour, toying with the possibility of inviting the centre left Zionist Union into a national unity government. Stephen Sackur speaks to the man Netanyahu defeated in the battle for the premiership, Isaac Herzog. For him the election was a major disappointment, so what does he and the Israeli left do now?

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