Jun. 3, 2021 5:18 PM
The leaders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc intensified their pressure campaign on Thursday against rival lawmakers in a last-ditch bid to prevent them from forming a new government.
The prime minister and his allies’ focus has thus far been on prodding lawmakers belonging to the right-wing Yamina party, whose leader Naftali Bennett is set to assume the premiership once the emergent coalition is voted into power by the Knesset, as well as on Mansour Abbas, whose United Arab List party is set to be part of the future coalition government headed by Bennett and Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid.