Or Binyamin Netanyahu could win back power
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskMr Lapid, aged 58, was the architect of the coalition that imploded on June 20th after barely a year’s rule. He had cobbled together eight disparate parties, including for the first time an independent Arab party, ending Binyamin Netanyahu’s 12 years in power. Though he led the coalition’s largest party, Mr Lapid agreed to cede the first half of the term to Mr Bennett.
Looking abroad, Mr Lapid will have to chart a canny path, especially with regard to Iran and Lebanon. His predecessor ratcheted up tension with a series of clandestine attacks against Iran, including some assassinations. On Mr Lapid’s second day in office Hizbullah, Iran’s Shia Muslim ally in Lebanon, launched a flight of drones towards Israeli gas platforms in the Mediterranean. Israel shot them down.
After a burst of violence in Israel and the West Bank during the recent month of Ramadan, the Palestinian front seems fairly calm. Yet that conflict simmers as ever. Unlike Mr Bennett, Mr Lapid favours a two-state solution in principle, but as foreign minister he showed scant interest in making it happen. Millions of stateless Palestinians have their ways of reminding Israeli prime ministers of their existence, often at the least convenient moment.
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