Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin said on Friday that he will announce next week that Yair Lapid leader Yair Lapid has succeeded in forming a government, paving the way for the coalition to be ratified.
The announcement underscored a growing sense of optimism among the so-called “change bloc,” headed by Lapid and Yamina leader Naftali Bennett, that the ideologically motley coalition aiming to unseat Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is headed for success.
Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister and the consummate master of political gamesmanship, has his efforts to splinter the bloc, which in addition to Yamina and Yesh Atid also includes the Labor party, the dovish Meretz party, and the centrist Blue and White party of Defense Minister Benny Gantz, as well as the Islamic conservative party Ra’am.
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{Matzav.com}
