It happened to them again, to the heads of the coalition, under their noses: without warning and with one swipe they withdrew from the coalition of hybrids who had formed an unexpected candidate.
This time it was MK Jida Rinawi Zoabi, who dropped the political sky on Lapid, Bennett and their partners.
Perhaps the reason for missing out was a deep lunch of the kind favored by Prime Minister Bennett, perhaps the failure lies precisely in the fact that MK Rinawi Zoabi was ostensibly a stumbling block removed from the road, a fire extinguished.
After all, the seeds of the revolt were there and the inscription cried out from the wall, which apparently caused Foreign Minister Lapid to arrange a pampering job for the rebellious MK as the Israeli consulate in China.
Last week he further claimed in an interview that she was not suitable for the position.
He did not imagine that the appointment would not come to fruition, and another brick would fall from the cynical wall he built through a series of appointments and promises that were supposed to suppress rebellions and ensure his entry into the Prime Minister's Office, even if as caretaker prime minister.
Presented Lapid with a horrible reality.
MK Jida Rinawi Zoabi, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
This was supposed to be a good time for the replacement prime minister.
He succeeded in stripping the prime minister of his title but not in practice, Bennett, of all his political assets and influence in the political sphere. Him as the sole director of the government.
Then Rinawi Zoabi came and placed him in a new and terrible reality.
The Lapid bureau could already smell on a good day the intoxicating smell of the house on Balfour Street and the power that the Prime Minister's Office brings with it.
Now the "healing" government is facing collapse into itself.
All the passengers of the change ship are afraid of being abandoned on board and counting their summer backwards.
Everyone is a suspect, every bastard is a king.
And worst of all, if the government does fall following the retirement from the left, Bennett will be able to continue in office until a new government is formed and Lapid's dream will suffer a fatal blow.
The "experiment" failed
The "experiment," as Prime Minister Bennett defined the formation of the government, failed.
The puzzle pieces that Bennett and Lapid tried to connect were scattered everywhere.
It turns out that beautiful words, lip candy and the identification of divisive genes are not enough to connect what is not meant to be connected.
Healing, it turns out, required all coalition members to give up every ounce of ideology.
Every shadow of truth was sacrificed on the altar of false unity.
Judging by what appears to be the moment, the "experiment" also did not help to postpone a fifth election.
Who could have imagined a situation in which Meretz is the one that eagerly supports the partners it saw yesterday, and will also see tomorrow, dangerous fascists - and that the coalition will not last?
Who could have predicted such a tragic end ?!
The choice facing the captains of the government is simple and cruel.
Its continued existence depends on the grace of the joint list in each and every vote.
Experience shows that members of the right, and especially Bennett, Shaked and Kahana, have forgotten the meaning of the words red line.
But one local vote in the Knesset is one thing, and daily functioning while relying on the fingers of Ayman Odeh, Tibi and Sami Abu Shehadeh is a completely different thing.
In a wave of terror, against the background of an attack on police by Ofer Kasif and Tibi, and given the already unsettled situation of the "right" parties in the coalition - making the Israeli government a prisoner of Balad is a path to catastrophe. History, but also an all-out war within the already troubled government.
This coming Wednesday, if no change takes place, the vote is expected to reach the plenum of the Knesset.
Members of the Knesset will have to decide whether the leather and deer leather chairs are a commodity that justifies giving up the last remnants of a road and values.
It will be followed by other votes followed by more votes.
Will Shaked be connected to Kasif, Handel to Odeh and Hauser to Abu Shehadeh?
Avidar was right
This week the government lost the majority in the Knesset and the coalition became a minority.
It is headed by a person who has the support of only four Knesset members, which does not bode well for Israeli democracy.
The coalition also lost the glue that bound it, and collapsed into itself.
We will soon find out if she has also lost her moral spine.
The answer to the question of whether this will happen may be even more frightening than the question.
Surprising?
MK Eli Avidar, Photo: Gideon Markovich
On the sidelines of the political storm, it is advisable to pay attention to MK Eli Avidar.
Since resigning from the government, Avidar has been upset and offers rage prophecies to anyone who demands them.
He pleaded and reprimanded, asked and reprimanded and never stopped demanding the passage of laws that would prevent Netanyahu from forming a government.
Avidar's warning turned out to be a true warning.
The hesitations of the coalition leaders to pass these laws have now placed it in a state of no choice.
This week also saw the passing of time when the law restricting the term of office of a prime minister can be enacted, which added more white hair to Avidar.
How he will behave in front of the coalition from now on, it is difficult to know, but it is not impossible that the next surprise will come from there.
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