Likud Knesset members are “a bunch of chickens” who have already begun to eulogize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu behind his back, Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday.
Netanyahu announced on Monday his intent to return the mandate to form a government to President Reuven Rivlin, opening the door for Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz to make his own attempt to form a coalition. If Gantz fails, Israel will likely undergo a third round of national elections.
Speaking to Israel’s Kan public broadcaster on Wednesday, Lieberman said that lip service to Netanyahu aside, in practice Likud members were already “burying him alive” and preparing for party primaries.

Lyft executives said the company would turn a profit by the end of 2021, a year earlier than analysts had expected.
The comments sent the stock surging as much as 9% on Tuesday.
The ride-hailing company will hit that milestone because it’s focused on profitable growth, rather than scale at all costs, the founders said onstage at a Wall Street Journal technology conference in Laguna Beach, California. Lyft and Uber Technologies Inc. have been cutting back on subsidies for riders and drivers that had been racking up costs.

President Trump on Wednesday excoriated so-called “Never-Trump Republicans” as “human scum” as he seeks to solidify Republican support of him amid an ongoing impeachment inquiry.
“The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do Nothing Democrats,” Trump tweeted. “Watch out for them, they are human scum!”
It’s unclear what led to the president to target Republicans who are critical of him, though Trump may have been lashing out at career government officials who are part of his administration and have cooperated in recent days with the impeachment inquiry.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the United States will lift sanctions on Turkey, saying that the Turkish government has informed the White House that it will abide by what he characterized as a “permanent” cease-fire along the border with Syria.
The Trump administration had announced the sanctions on Oct. 14 after the Turkish military offensive against Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria. That offensive followed Trump’s announcement that he would pull U.S. troops from Syria – a decision that brought stiff, bipartisan criticism.

A 50-year-old Palestinian man who recently converted to Judaism was arbitrarily arrested by Palestinian Authority security forces two weeks ago and is still in custody, according to a Ynet report. The man claims to have been tortured by P.A. forces.
The man, a Chevron resident, was arrested on erev Yom Kippur while on a visit to a West Bank area under P.A. control to meet one of his nine children, who along with their mother are Muslims. He was dragged into a waiting vehicle by four men and then taken to a Chevron police station, where he was arrested, according to the report.

Russia and Turkey agreed Tuesday to cooperate in removing Syrian Kurdish fighters from a wide swath of territory just south of Turkey’s border, in a deal that cemented Russian President Vladimir Putin’s preeminent role in Syria as U.S. troops depart and America’s influence wanes.
The agreement, reached after an hours-long meeting between Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi, will leave Turkey and Russia in control of territory formerly held by Kurdish forces once allied with the United States.

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