The sheet with the signatures to be delivered to the president was ready in the morning, there were five in blue ink, three were missing. Until the very end. The “coalition of change” has reached the limit of the nerves and the time available to Yair Lapid before we can announce the agreement that it can – there is still no confidence in parliament next week – stop Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12 years in power.
–
The mechanism of rotation – Naftali Bennett becomes head of government first, then it’s up to Lapid who for now is foreign minister – he infiltrated the minutiae of the negotiations and in the afternoon the biggest obstacle was represented by who should have a seat in the Justice commission between Merav Michaeli, Labor leader, and Ayelet Shaked , number two in the settler party led by Bennett. Crisis resolved with a mini rotation.
–
More delay. Mansour Abbas is the head of an Islamist formation and was able to confirm his yes only after obtaining the green light from the religious council, he should obtain the post of Deputy Minister of the Interior and is the first time that Israeli Arabs have participated in government since 1977.
–
The alliance brings together very different pieces, for now it is held together by the willingness to send Netanyahu home and to avoid the fifth election in two and a half years. The understanding provides that more ideological issues such as negotiations with the Palestinians are left aside to focus on internal problems, from the economy to the need to regain unity after the clashes of recent weeks between Arabs and Jews and the years of incitement against the left. Also yesterday a group of Likud supporters protested in front of the building where the party leaders were finalizing the agreement: Netanyahu’s loyalists, on trial for corruption, consider a coup the change at the top.
–
Instead, it proceeded smoothly the election of Isaac Herzog as the eleventh Israeli president: he obtained 87 preferences in the first round and the position held by his father Chaim between 1983 and 1993. Labor, in politics since 1999 as an advisor to Ehud Barak, 60, is considered part of the Israeli aristocracy: he bears the name of his grandfather who was Chief Rabbi of Ireland and leader of Ashkenazi Jews in Palestine under the British Mandate and then in the State of Israel from founding until 1959.
–
–
June 2, 2021 (change June 2, 2021 | 23:24)
© REPRODUCTION RESERVED
–
