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Bennett Basharm, Bibi in court: The coalition's clock is ticking from Pilber's testimony - Walla! news

2022-03-25T06:24:24.044Z


The Knesset celebrated a year without elections this week with a split screen: while the prime minister flies between political adventures abroad, his predecessor in office has settled in the Jerusalem districts. But on Bennett's table are accumulating political-strategic headaches, with Shaked and Ganz, challenging the possibility that the government he heads will survive until next year.


Bennett Basharm, Bibi in court: The coalition's clock is ticking from Pilber's testimony

The Knesset celebrated a year without elections this week with a split screen: while the prime minister flies between political adventures abroad, his predecessor in office has settled in the Jerusalem districts.

But on Bennett's table are accumulating political-strategic headaches, with Shaked and Ganz, challenging the possibility that the government he heads will survive until next year.

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25/03/2022

Friday, 25 March 2022, 09:00 Updated: 09:13

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Fans of historical dates and irony had a triple political joy this week: Wednesday, March 23, marks the first anniversary of the 24th Knesset elections, at the end of which the Bennett-Lapid government was formed, ousting Benjamin Netanyahu from 12 consecutive years in power.



The day before Hayarzeit, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett returned from a historic regional summit in Egypt with President Assisi and heir to the United Arab Emirates, and the next morning - Opposition leader Netanyahu appeared in court in Jerusalem for the debut of state witness, former associate Shlomo Pilber, in the 4000 case. The horrors of the deadly attack in Be'er Sheva that overshadowed the two events, the date would have created a kind of symbolic screen split: a year before the election, Bennett in Sharm, and Netanyahu in court - the face of the upheaval.



From the Kremlin to Sharm, India early next month, Bennett is taking advantage of the Knesset recess for a diplomatic campaign and campaign, stepping on all the sensitive points of his predecessor's: special relations with Putin, normalization with Gulf states, and for dessert - hosted by smiling friend Narendra Modi.

Alongside the strategic discussions on the Iranian nuclear program, defense alliances and political agreements, the political goal of the campaigns is to build leadership and show that not only Bibi can belong to the jet set.

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Bennett takes advantage of the Knesset recess for a political campaign, the leaders at the summit in Sharm (Photo: Official website, Egyptian Presidential Office)

But as Bennett flies between political adventures, troubles and worries accumulate in the country.

From the corona, which is once again saying and breaking records, as well as housing prices and internal battles over the cost of living, to the narrow and faltering coalition, which barely made it to the last Knesset conference and continues to quarrel even now over Finance Minister Lieberman's agriculture reform.

He is evading / rejecting all these troubles now, but after the break, in about a month and a half, everything will float on his table, and he will also not be able to fly as he pleases, because they will need his finger for the majority in the Knesset.



The coalition likes to say that in contrast to the boycotts and the paralysis of the 61st Knesset, the government has a harmony of working in cooperation.

But bad blood is flowing there too, and Bennett has strategic squeaks and headaches at the top of the highest government.

Take for example the political-political battle that has been going on in recent days between the Prime Minister's Office and the Defense Minister's Office over travel to India - or in short: who will land in New Delhi first.

Ganz was due to travel to India on April 5, then Bennett announced that he was arriving three days earlier.

Following this, Ganz asked to be ahead of him by a week, and all this, in front of confused and embarrassed Indian eyes from the lack of coordination.

Shaked's joining India may indicate another effort to warm up relations (Photo: Walla !, Reuven Castro)

= But the tension at the top goes beyond kindergarten games on credit and respect also to fateful policy questions: Ganz did not join Bennett and Lapid's scathing announcement last week about the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and this week publicly teased and said "strategic relations are not on Twitter".

A few hours later, at a political conference, Ganz reiterated his commitment to the government, but did not forget the permanent caveat: "As long as it serves a loyal Israel," who constantly reminds his partners that he is the only one who has other options in the current Knesset.



The air train to India in early April will also include Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, who is due to join the prime minister's flight, amid reports of the duo's cooling off and moving away since the formation of the government.

Bennett broke silence at the beginning of the week and after weeks of indifference to attacks on Shaked over the Ukraine refugee outline, he backed it and rebuked ministers and MKs who made it a "punching bag" as he puts it. Sustainable, because of the opposite political directions they are attracted to: he is in the midst of a process of concentration and she just wants to strengthen her roots on the right. Another free radical in the government is Minister Zeev Elkin, who is acting as an independent actor in a new hope and not as a committed one.

The existence of the Bennett-Lapid government depends on Netanyahu's presence in the arena (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

So the 24th Knesset did mark the first anniversary of the election this week, but the gap between where the political system was last year and where it is today has an important rule - it is simply impossible to know whether the Bennett-Lapid government will survive until next anniversary.

With a backlash, the coalition purports to start working on the next state budget, which will ensure Lapid's rotation, and the cumulative headaches are likely to make the task a complex challenge.



But the most serious threat is not found in the Knesset, not even in court, but between the benches and stands of the Jerusalem District Court.

The existence of the Bennett-Lapid government actually depends on the same split screen - and on Netanyahu's presence in the arena.

But the prevailing assessment in the political system is that a plea deal is not a question of if, but of when.

Once it matures and becomes a reality, the glue in the coalition is expected to dissolve and the cards of Shaked Ganz, and of anyone dreaming of a comeback to the right or forming another coalition, will open up and remix.

Therefore, the entire political system closely follows Pilber's testimony, which can be very significant here or there, and more than any internal conflict, directs the ticking of the clock over the life of the coalition and over the future of Bennett and Lapid.

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