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In bid to oust Bibi, rivals may unite to help Bennett become PM

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Published: 9 March 2021

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Far-right Yamina head has stayed quiet on whether he would join Likud govt; Lapid says his key aim is not to win but to replace Netanyahu

Naftali Bennett sees a path to the prime minister's office after Israel's election (Haaretz)
The Yamina chairman has thus far stayed mum on whether he would join a Netanyahu government. For Bennett, this is part of a plan that just might win him the premiership

Lapid: Replacing Netanyahu more important than being PM (Jerusalem Post)
Gantz ready for Sa'ar, Bennett to be PM

TV: Centre-left may back Bennett for PM if needed to prevent Netanyahu majority (Times of Israel)
Some anti-Netanyahu parties weighing plan to support Yamina chairman in a rotational premiership to pull him from the right-wing, religious bloc, report says

Netanyahu gambles political fate on reopening Israel (Al-Monitor)
BEN CASPIT: Fighting for his political life after three inconclusive elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows that the pandemic will determine his fate on March 23.

Visiting Bedouin voters, Netanyahu is welcomed — and hit with sharp criticism (Times of Israel)
‘I vote for Likud,’ sheikh says as PM claps, before adding: ‘Many workers under your authority have made our lives miserable’; premier promises to personally handle Bedouin issues

Photo: Yamina Chairman Naftali Bennett speaks to the press while on a tour of the Omer Regional Council in the Negev, in February 2021 (Eliyahu Hershkovitz)
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