Bennett Blinked First

At the end of his first year as Israel’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett was faced with the second critical decision point of his political life – the first, of course, being whether or not to join Yair Lapid in forming the most unusual coalition this country has ever seen. That is a subject, however, for […]

Poor Mansour Abbas: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Or: Keeping colleagues from shooting themselves in the foot MK Mansour Abbas, head of Ra’am, the first Arab party to ever enter an Israeli coalition government as an equal partner, set out to accomplish something that never before seemed possible. He stated that his goal was to improve the conditions under which the Israeli Arab […]

So you want to crash the Bennett-Lapid-Ra’am Coalition…..be Careful!

What is behind the growing pressure on Yamina and the party’s remaining loyal members to get behind calls to bring down the coalition? Who is afraid of Ra’am? Israel is at a crucial juncture right now. When the current coalition was sworn in so many Israelis across the political spectrum had hopes for change. For […]