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After 15 years as prime minister of Israel, including a three-year stint in the 1990's Binyamin Netanyahu went down in history as that country's longest-serving leader — fundamentally transforming Israel's domestic politics, its relations with the US, and what little remained of the Arab-Israeli peace process. As Israel embarks on a new chapter, led by an unlikely coalition under the premiership of Naftali Bennett, we ask what comes next. Join us as Ian Lustick breaks down the question and offers his ideas about the road ahead.

Ian Lustick held the Bess W. Heyman Chair and taught Political Science at Penn until 2021, with a focus on Middle Eastern politics, comparative politics, and computer modeling. His research focuses on the implications of the disappearance of the option of a negotiated “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and techniques of counterfactual forecasting. He is a past president of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association and of the Association for Israel Studies, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  Among his books are Arabs in the Jewish State (1980); For the Land and the Lord (1988, 1994); Unsettled States, Disputed Lands (1993); Trapped in the War on Terror (2006); and Paradigm Lost (2019).