Blue And White’s Lapid Backs Lieberman’s Call for Unity Gov’t

By Staff, Agencies

Yair Lapid, Benjamin Netanyahu challenger and co-leader of centrist party Blue & White, backed calls by trouble-making Netanyahu ally Avigdor Lieberman for a unity government on Sunday.

"A unity government led by Blue and White is the right thing for ‘Israel’," Lapid said on Twitter. "Glad that Lieberman also realized this was the right thing."

Lieberman, who brought down the government after quitting as war minister in November, and then prevented the formation of a coalition last month, said on Saturday that he would seek to "impose a government with the Likud and with Blue and White."

"We will do everything in order to block a Haredi government," he told the “Israeli” entity’s Channel 13.

Blue and White called for unity government during the campaign between them and Likud, minus Netanyahu.

Between them, the parties currently have 70 parliamentarians, a comfortable majority in a Knesset of 120 seats. They would not need Lieberman in that scenario.

The two parties actually have a lot in common - but Blue and White is branded as 'left' and Likud as 'right,' which makes their alliance unlikely.

In other news of significance to Lieberman’s constituency, Ron Cobi, the well-known mayor of the northern city of Tiberias, on the Lake Tiberias [Sea of Galilee], announced he would form his own party, to be called Secular Right.

Cobi is popular among the “Israeli” entity’s large Russian-speaking community, which constitute the largest share of the Lieberman vote.