It's looking increasingly likely that Bennett will replace Netanyahu as Prime Minister of Israel in the next few days, despite winning just seven seats (6 following a defection) in the last election.
https://twitter.com/EylonALevy/status/1398708793773543427
Bennett is more ideologically right-wing than Netanyahu. His party is even called "Rightwards". But the government he'd lead would be a broad coalition of parties of the centre, left and right.
The much-hyped meeting of the Yemina ("Rightwards") party caucus finished after less than an hour. The five other Knesset members gave Bennett their unanimous support. That means that Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett could notify the President today that they can form a government.
There had been briefings to the media that this or that Yemina member wasn't prepared to back a "change" government and would instead defect to Netanyahu. So far, no sign that this is true (apart from the one prior defection).
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