gustavo petro. also, crazy about cannabis as thailand legalises marijuana we report on a boom in weed related businesses. and the russian journalist dmitry muratov auctions his nobel peace prize medal for more than $100 million, with all the proceeds going to help children displaced by the war in ukraine. five general elections inside four years that is where israel is heading as the current prime minister, naftali bennett is to step down from his post, dissolve parliament and trigger yet another election. in the meantime, the current foreign minister, yair lapid, who was due to share the prime ministerial post with mr bennet, will take temporary charge. mr bennett has been in thejob forjust over a year and has struggled to stabilise his increasingly fragile governing coalition. translation: i held a series of talks with officials and i realised that in 10 days, with the expiration of the west bank regulations, israel will experience serious security damages and legal cha
we can now speak to dan arbell who s scholar in residence at the center for israeli studies at the american university. he is also a 25 year veteran of the israeli foreign service and previously served as deputy chief of mission at the embassy of israel in washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for joining us. i guess anyone or anything but netanyahu only lasts for so long then. absolutely. it was a year in which this government did a lot of good things but it faced internal challenges and at this point it couldn t go on any longer, they were managing an impossible situation and i think that yair lapid and bennett did the right thing in seizing the bull by the horns and rather dictating what is going to happen next rather than being dictated and you are right, the anti netanyahu camp cannot gojust on right, the anti netanyahu camp cannot go just on being anti netanyahu but this election, 15 3.5 years, will also, you won t be surprised to hear, also