Posts Tagged: Yair Lapid Coalition
New Israeli Government Holds First Meeting, Picks Security Cabinet
Jerusalem Post - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu presided for the first time over his third government Monday evening, holding a cabinet meeting in his...
Lapid: No Ultimatum Was Issued Over Cabinet Posts
Times of Israel - Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid denied reports early Thursday that he was holding coalition talks hostage over his demands...
Lapid, Bennett, Mofaz Form Mega-Bloc, Demand Foreign and Finance Ministries
Jerusalem Post - Yesh Atid, Bayit Yehudi and Kadima formed a bloc of 33 Knesset mandates on Wednesday night, and demanded that they receive...
Netanyahu and Lapid At Odds Over Cabinet Jobs
Times of Israel - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a secret weekend meeting with prospective coalition partner Yair Lapid, Channel 2 News reported...
Netanyahu Given Two Week Extension to Form Coaliton
Israeli President Shimon Peres granted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a two-week extension on Saturday after the latter failed to assemble a coalition in...
Yesh Atid Rabbi: We Do Not Hate Charedim
Ynet- After Likud-Beiteinu claimed Yesh Atid is refusing to join a coalition that includes ultra-Orthodox parties, Rabbi Shay Piron, placed second on the Yesh...
Likud: Lapid Will Only Join Coalition if Haredi Parties Excluded
Ynet - Yesh Atid's condition for joining the next government is that it will not include haredi parties, Attorney David Shomron, a member of Likud...
Israeli Politics: On the Edge of the Precipice
There is madness in the air. Israel faces extraordinary challenges whilst virtually all our leaders uninhibitedly continue their intrigues and machinations in...
Netanyahu Invites Lapid to Join Government
Jerusalem Post - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu changed his approach to coalition talks 180 degrees on Sunday night and unexpectedly invited Yair Lapid's Yesh...
Yair Lapid: I Could be Israel’s Prime Minister in Eighteen Months
Times of Israel - Adopting a tough stance as coalition negotiations got under way, Israel's new political star Yair Lapid told aides that...