Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel s US correspondent based in New York
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with then Education Minister Naftali Bennett during a plenum session in the Knesset, on December 5, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yamina party chairman Naftali Bennett traded barbs on Monday as the two right-wing party leaders competed for a similar pool of voters, with eight days remaining before the election.
Netanyahu called on Bennett to pledge not to join a government with opposition leader and Yesh Atid party chief Yair Lapid after the March 23 election.
While Bennett has not ruled out sitting in a coalition with the center-left Lapid, he has vowed not to allow the Yesh Atid chairman to be prime minister in such a coalition. Netanyahu has for weeks maintained that Bennett will nonetheless agree to serve under Yesh Atid in a power-sharing government in which the Yamina chair will be premier for half a term, arguing th
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