The exact date of Israel’s Fall general election has yet to be set, but the entire political system is already gearing up and gathering momentum, much of it reactive to the findings of opinion polls. The first major move on the ever-changing chessboard of Israeli politics has come from Naftali

Bennett and Yair Lapid, who previously served as prime ministers under a rotation agreement in what became known as the “exchange government” formed in 2021. They have announced that they will run together as a single party in the forthcoming election.

In principle, this move is aimed at creating greater clarity by presenting a centrist bloc as a viable alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and its ultra-Orthodox coalition partners.

A Israeli Poll found that 42% of Likud voters are weighing........

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