Is Israel Finally Fed Up With Benjamin Netanyahu?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (unseen) during a joint press conference in Jerusalem on May 25.
Photographer: Alex Brandon/AFP/Getty Images
It’s a coalition of bitter enemies united behind a single goal: to oust Israel’s longest serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
In an unlikely alliance, Yair Lapid, a centrist and former finance minister, will share power with nationalist hardliner and tech millionaire Naftali Bennett. An Arab faction — the conservative Islamist Ra’am party led by Mansour Abbas — will be part of an Israeli government for the first time in history.