The tense and difficult weekend that the country went through took us back exactly one year - to the events and conflicts that broke out in Jerusalem, and which spread like wildfire to Judea and Samaria and the Arab communities in Israel - and the tension was no less high last Saturday night.
The agenda of events seemed to be known in advance, and was even quite similar to other events and conflicts, but in a more minimal dimension.
The events and confrontations broke out in the small hours of the night, at a time when there are not many worshipers, and most of those who were were boys and young people from East Jerusalem, who are there during all of Ramadan, every night, all night.
Police repulsed them following stone-throwing, and were forced to enter the mosque to make arrests.
But this time, contrary to the opinions and assessments that were hastened to report on the "end of the coalition" with the outbreak of riots on the mountain, it was absolutely clear that it would not fall apart.
Bennett with coalition members, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Naftali Bennett, Photo: Coco
The riots in Lod, Photo: Shlomi Diaz
This is mainly due to the stability and security that MK Mansour Abbas gives to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid. .
The fear of many in the sector stems from the fact that the overthrow of the government will lead to the Likud coming back to power, and this time with senior positions for two Knesset members from religious Zionism, Bezalel Smutrich and Itamar Ben Gvir.
This fear has led to considerable pressure on members of the joint list not to be the one to overthrow the government, and indeed - despite its members' statements that the current government is extremist in Israeli governments - the joint is not expected to overthrow the government or dissolve the Knesset.
The coalition's willingness to "pay" prices to MKs from the joint for parliamentary cooperation is preferable to them. For sitting in the coalition.
Evidence of this difficulty can be found in the harsh and sharp criticism leveled at him on Arabic social networks during Friday, some of which came for the first time from his constituents, many of them from the Negev.
Two prominent leaders in his movement, a former MK from the Islamic Movement Massoud Ghanaim, expressed public criticism, and his predecessor, Ibrahim Tsarzur, even called on him to leave the coalition immediately. However, these two senior officials no longer even tried to convene party institutions, That it's a lip service, at least for the time being.
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