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On April 9, Israeli voters will go to the polls to decide whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deserves to continue serving in that office with three corruption cases pending against him.

Israel - at least the largely secular and progressive version of Israel that once captured the world’s imagination - is over. Although that Israel was always in some ways a fantasy, the myth was at least grounded in reality. Today that reality has changed, and the country that has replaced it is profoundly different from the one its founders imagined almost 70 years ago. Since the last elections, in March 2015, a number of slow-moving trends have accelerated dramatically.