“Israeli” Bennett: Unity Gov’t Needs Considerable Effort

By Staff, Agencies

After sitting down with several leaders of the so-called anti-Netanyahu bloc for coalition talks, “Israeli” ‘Yamina’ party chief Naftali Bennett said on Friday that the gaps between the sides would take considerable effort to bridge.

Bennett met with ‘Yesh Atid's’ Yair Lapid, Blue & White's Benny Gantz, Labor's ‘Merav Michaeli’, New Hope's Gideon Saar and ‘Yisrael Beitenu's’ Avigdor Liberman, most of whom are considerably more liberal than the hawkish Bennett, long regarded as the leader of the apartheid entity’s religious Zionist contingent. 

The rightist Knesset member said he was "willing to go far and pay a personal political price" in terms of losing voter support.

Earlier this week the Zionist entity’s President Reuven Rivlin entrusted Lapid with the mandate of forming a government, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to cobble together a ruling coalition of at least 61 parliamentary seats. 

Netanyahu's stuttering attempt at forming a government was the latest manifestation of “Israel's” political crisis, which has seen four inconclusive elections in two years.