In accordance with the law and to embarrass Netanyahu: The Prime Minister invited the opposition chairman to an update meeting
Netanyahu has not attended a security update meeting with the prime minister throughout the past year, and on Friday told Lapid that he would prefer to receive them through the military secretary.
Tal Shalev and Barak Ravid
03/07/2022
Sunday, 03 July 2022, 14:37 Updated: 14:58
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In the video: Lapid's first cabinet meeting in the USSR in which he clarifies that the goal is to run a government as if there were no elections (Photo: Roni Knafo)
Prime Minister Yair Lapid today (Sunday) invited opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu to an update on state affairs on the agenda. Netanyahu did not attend the security update meeting required by law between the prime minister and the opposition chairman last year.
He refused to report and even in the office of former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was not officially invited, and he agreed to receive only security updates from the military secretary.
At the end of the week, after Lapid took over as prime minister, Netanyahu called Lapid and asked him to continue to receive updates from the military secretary.
Lapid's letter is intended to follow the provisions of the law that obliges the prime minister, according to which the head of the opposition must be invited to a meeting, and at the same time embarrass Netanyahu as someone who refuses to do so.
Invited to a meeting.
Netanyahu and Lapid (Photo: Flash 90, Olbia Fitoussi)
Earlier today, the first cabinet meeting chaired by Lapid was held.
The former prime minister, now the deputy prime minister, Naftali Bennett, also attended the meeting.
"In the coming months, our goal is to run the government as if there is no election campaign," Lapid said in his opening remarks.
"Citizens are entitled to a functioning government at any given moment. The education crisis cannot wait, the Iranians, Hamas and Hezbollah are not waiting. We have to act against them in all arenas and that is exactly what we will do."
Yesterday, Lapid made a statement to the media, for the first time since taking office.
"The State of Israel is bigger than any of us, more important than any of us," he said in his opening remarks.
"It belongs not only to us, but also to those who have dreamed of it for thousands of years in the Diaspora and also to those who have not yet been born, to future generations."
He called for choosing a "common good."
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