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The news is that Israeli centrist lawmaker Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid party (“There is a Future”), declared to the President Reuven Rivlin, that he had managed to put together a majority supported coalition to govern the country. He managed to proclaim this just before his mandate to form the coalition ran out, Wednesday night.
This would supposedly be a “Change government”, as it is widely being called in Israel.
But is it, really?
Under the agreements reached, Naftali Bennett, of the religious-Zionist settler party Yamina (“Rightwards”), would be Prime Minister first, in a rotation agreement with Lapid. Bennett, who is to the right of Netanyahu, who has boasted of killing “many Arabs” and said “there is no problem with that”, will now be heading the big liberal change coalition. Halleluja.