<p class="content-excerpt">The prime minister-designate responded by vowing to continue ignoring 'the ill-founded advice' of the newspaper</p> <div class="components"> <p>Israel’s incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday accused the&nbsp;<em>New York Time</em>s of “demonizing Israel for decades” in response to an editorial that criticizes his coalition government.&nbsp;</p> <p>The&nbsp;<a class="link" title="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/politics/1671348675-israeli-democracy-is-in-danger-says-the-new-york-times" href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/politics/1671348675-israeli-democracy-is-in-danger-says-the-new-york-times" _mce_href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/politics/1671348675-israeli-democracy-is-in-danger-says-the-new-york-times">op-ed titled “The ideal of democracy in a Jewish state is in jeopardy”&nbsp;</a>published on Saturday stated that the next right-wing government led by Netanyahu puts Israeli democracy at risk.</p> <div class="taboola-wrapper"> <div class=" trc_related_container trc_spotlight_widget trc_elastic trc_elastic_ab_mid-article-thumbnails_abp-mode "></div> </div> <p>"The Israel we knew is no more," the editorial said, suggesting that "ultra-religious and ultra-nationalist" parties, which make up the new coalition, "endanger the ideal of a Jewish and democratic state" and that "Netanyahu's government poses a significant threat to the future of Israel."</p> <p>The prime minister-designate responded by vowing to continue ignoring “the ill-founded advice” of the newspaper.</p> </div>