Justice minister says new bail and sentencing law is a 'major step forward'

No later than Oct. 27, a divided Israeli electorate will decide whether the leader who steered the country through three inconclusive wars in three years should continue to chart the course. Benjamin Netanyahu has been Israel’s prime minister, on and off, since 1996, and remains the dominant political figure in the country. But massive security failures during Hamas’s October 7 massacre shook many Israelis’ faith in a man whose main promise was to keep them safe. His follow up wars — against Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and, with the U.S., against the terror groups’ Islamist...