Brothers, for now: the covert battle that threatens the alliance between Bennett and Lapid

While the replacement prime minister worked frantically to lower the flames in the UAV and end the crisis on the Temple Mount, the Bennett bureau kept throwing sparks and belligerent statements.

As long as the smell of elections is carried in the air, the question of who will overthrow the government and who will head it in the election campaign will challenge the Brotherhood in conflicting interests

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13/05/2022

Friday, 13 May 2022, 03:52 Updated: 08:54

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On Monday evening, shortly after the coalition defeated the opposition on the first day after the break, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Deputy Prime Minister Yair Lapid tweeted a joint video celebrating their victory.

A short time earlier, Push from the country reported that Bennett estimates that the government has reached the end, is preparing for the election, and prefers that the blame fall on the PM, so that he can keep his seat during the campaign

. He suggested filming a video to dispel the rumors, and to broadcast partnership and unity. "The government is here to stay," he wrote enthusiastically in a tweet accompanying the video.

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The choice of words and the comparison of the messages in the tweets is petty, but it is also symbolic, and faithfully reflects the division of labor between Bennett and Lapid this week, in efforts to stabilize the coalition and resolve the crisis with RAAM: Lapid worked hard to save the government, and Bennett did nothing but vote. Admittedly, in every possible forum he called for "firing on them with all their might" to preserve the coalition, but in the face of the RAAM, not only did he not help, but on the contrary, he thwarted and interfered.

While Lapid and his men frantically worked to lower the national flames in the USSR and end the crisis around the Temple Mount, the Prime Minister's Office did not stop throwing sparks at them. , Baraam missed face from reports that everything was in Bennett's blessing.

On Sunday, at a cabinet meeting, Bennett on his own initiative raised the Temple Mount to the top of the agenda, and decided to use his opening remarks in front of the cameras to confront Mansour Abbas.

The day before, Abbas wrote a post in Arabic, in which he stated that the position of the Prime Minister on the Temple Mount would be determined in accordance with the understandings between Israel and Jordan.

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Is the alliance nearing its end?

Lapid and Bennett (Photo: Flash 90, Miriam Elster)

The climax was on Tuesday morning, just hours before the Shura Council convened, when the Prime Minister's Office issued an initiated announcement regarding the standards of the Jordanian Waqf on the Temple Mount.

The official excuse was a response to a report here 11, but the message was sent out in NATO distribution to all media and returned al-Aqsa to the headlines, just as Lapid and Abbas were at the height of their efforts to calm the ideological fire.

Since the smell of elections in the air following Silman's retirement, the most famous clause in coalition agreements is the one that determines who will head the transitional government, in case the government falls before the rotation.

If two MKs from Bennett's bloc vote in favor of dissolving the Knesset, that is, if there is another or more defector on the right or a new hope, Lapid will get the job for the campaign period. , A valuable ticket in the election, and especially for a single-digit candidate who is not really clear who his base is.

Therefore, the sequence of statements on the Temple Mount reinforced the suspicion that Bennett is deliberately sticking fingers in the eye, because they do not really want the crisis with RAAM to end.

In the end, despite the sparks, Lapid and Abbas were able to bring the situation back to normal and give it another chance for cooperation, and the atmosphere of frustration that dominated the coalition earlier this week was replaced by cautious optimism at the end.

On Wednesday evening, Lapid went on to marvel at his victory in an interview with Amit Segal on News 12, and caused Bennett a minor storm of his own, when he talked about parliamentary cooperation with the joint list and did not rule out the possibility that they would give the government a safety net.

Gave another chance.

Abbas (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The right did not like the headline and cracked a wave of briefings and reactions to make it clear that it would not and will not be, even though only this joint week helped the coalition bring down the first no-confidence motions after the recess.

But Bennett and Shaked fear that Lapid will try to make the collaborations with Ahmad Tibi a routine, so that they will roll him towards rotation, and that this will increase the right-wing pressure on my right-wing members and push them to join Silman in retirement.

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interview, they saw a kind of price tag for dealing with RAAM, which was intended to convey a message that Lapid can also stick fingers in his eye.

Bennett also vehemently denied reports and rumors of his pessimistic assessments of government survival and gave motivational talks to ministers that "it depends only on us."

On Wednesday, Bennett and Lapid met with Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

The three of them tweeted a triple picture of sitting on the budget for next year, this time with the same coordinated message: "Working on a budget, for you!".

If the government stabilizes in the coming weeks and continues the momentum of survival for success, the Brotherhood can overcome conflicting interests.

But as it continues to sway, the covert battle between Bennett and Lapid over who will overthrow the government may bring it closer to its end.

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