Less than two weeks before the elections, the tension within the center-left bloc is rising.
The feeling among the various parties in the bloc is that Lapid is focused on increasing Yesh Atid even at the cost of trampling the partner parties.
"Israel Hayom" learned that in the state camp they recently conveyed a message to Yesh Atid members, according to which: "If you don't stop attacking us, we will attack you back. Stop shooting inside the APC."
According to officials in the state camp, their message comes against the background of Yesh Atid briefings and interviews, in which the possibility of Gantz going with Netanyahu was hinted at - even though Gantz and his party members have denied several times the possibility of sitting with Netanyahu on any outline.
Even in the Labor Party there is no peace in front of Lapid.
In recent days, the state camp tried to sharpen the differences between them and Yesh Atid, and to emphasize the security line of Gantz and Eisenkot, as well as the difference regarding the possibility of a government with Hadash-Ta'al.
While Lapid refrained from ruling out in his voice the possibility of forming a government that would rely on Ahmed Tibi and Ayman Odeh from the outside, Gantz said in an interview with Yishai Cohen on "Saturday Square" that he undertakes not to form a government with the joint list and the state camp will not enter such a government, even if it is formed by Yair Lapid.
"Need to learn to speak"
There is also tension between Prime Minister Lapid and the chairman of the Labor Party, Rav Michaeli. MK Ram Shefa from the Labor Party said last night at a conference of the religious kibbutz: "Lapid and Michaeli need to learn to talk to each other, there is a personal matter between them, which I do not want to talk about." .
As I recall, Lapid campaigned calling for the unification of Labor with Merev Michaeli's "On the Head" movement, and actually played it in the polls until the lists were closed.
Will they put the tensions aside?
Michaeli and Lapid (archive), photo: Oren Ben Hakon
The battle for the female voice doesn't add up either.
Yesh Atid invests a lot of resources in a campaign aimed at women, highlighting the fact that they have four women in the top ten while Likud only has one.
Along with the mandate battles, Lapid has a problem that should also bother the bloc's partners.
Friday is the deadline for signing surplus agreements between parties.
As of today, while in the Netanyahu bloc the Likud signed with Smotrich and Ben Gvir and Shas signed with Torah Judaism, in the Netanyahu opposition bloc all the parties do not have a surplus agreement, a move that could result in the burning of mandates.
Voting abroad has begun
4,500 people are entitled to vote in elections outside the territory of the homeland, all of them official representatives of the State of Israel and the national institutions.
102 polling stations will be opened in 100 missions of Israel in the world. The first polling station where the elections began is stationed at the Israeli Embassy in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand.
Voting began that night at the consulates in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the western United States. Voting at embassies abroad will conclude on Friday 10/21 at 6:00 a.m. Later, the ballot boxes will arrive sealed in double envelopes and will be counted together with the votes of the soldiers and sailors.
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