Blue and White No. 2 Yair Lapid announced Thursday that he was giving up his rotation deal with party leader Benny Gantz whereby they would share the premiership, in order to insure that he not constitute an obstacle to a unity government led by Gantz and including the Likud party.
Speaking at the Blue and White faction meeting in the Knesset before the swearing-in ceremony for the 22nd Knesset, Lapid said, “For the sake of a unity government I’m forgoing the rotation. It’s far more important to me that there be unity in the country; that there won’t be another election; that this country begins a healing process, mends the wounds, changes the national priorities.”
Lapid is regarded with particular hostility by Israel’s two ultra-Orthodox parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, whose leaders have frequently cited the possibility of a prime minister Lapid as a core element of their opposition to a coalition partnership with Blue and White.
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{Matzav.com}