Resignation will go into effect Tuesday, comes after former PM agreed with outgoing successor Lapid that no sensitive decisions will be made in transition period
Alternate PM caps off tumultuous political career, hailing achievements of his government; agrees with outgoing PM that no sensitive decisions be made in transition period
Raoul Wootliff is the The Times of Israel s political correspondent.
Naftali Bennett (R) and Bezalel Smotrich of the right-wing Yamina party hold a press conference in Jerusalem on May 14, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The right-wing Yamina party confirmed Monday night that it will split ahead of the upcoming March elections, with National Union chair Bezalel Smotrich pulling his faction out of the union to run on his own.
“We are going our separate ways,” Smotrich told Channel 12 news.
He said that Yamina head Naftali Bennett was focused on the economy, while he was set on “uniting religious Zionism, and chiefly to be the ideological right-wing voice in the Knesset.”