Shas head Aryeh Deri gives a press statement (together with UTJ MK Moshe Gafni and Yaakov Litzman) at the Knesset, June 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
1. In like Elkin: While last week the new “change bloc” government was on its way to power with a big question mark hanging over it, it now appears to be inevitable, with could-be rebels seemingly staying in line and inter-coalition crinkles getting smoothed out.
All three major dailies (even Israel Hayom) run front-page headlines declaring that the new government is “on its way to being sworn in.”
“The swearing-in: Sunday,” reads the top headline in Yedioth Ahronoth, noting that the straw that bolstered the camel’s back was Nir Orbach’s “difficult decision” to support his party’s entrance into the coalition.
The head of Yamina has made himself an accomplice to what the right sees as the left’s take-down of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu through illegitimate means.
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The Israeli flag tucked into the Jewish Heritage Mural in New York s Lower East Side
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