The decision of five Yamina lawmakers to back leader Naftali Bennett’s likely decision to sit in an anti-Netanyahu government leaves the prime minister with precious few options of clinging to power
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May. 30, 2021 6:00 AM
The anti-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu government of change is still not an accomplished fact. It’s premature to pop open the champagne, and also too early to wear sackcloth. The path to the fulfillment of a Yair Lapid-Naftali Bennett government is a long and difficult one. This odd ship will not reach a safe harbor even after the other coalition agreements are signed. It would only be on the day that such a government is sworn in, and only when the last of the Knesset members cast their votes, that we would know that Israel has a new government.
Due to the Likudniks who didn't vote in Israel's latest election, the possibility has emerged of forming a governing coalition without Netanyahu's Likud and the ultra-Orthodox parties for the first time since 1977