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Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said the emerging U.S.-Iran agreement would be bad for the region, a stance he voiced while announcing a joint election slate with former prime minister Naftali Bennett.
Israeli center-left parties are merging and courting moderate U.S. Democrats to oust Benjamin Netanyahu, hoping a new government could restore warmer ties with Washington. But even if Netanyahu exits, experts say repairing the relationship will be a long, complex process amid shifting Israeli politics, waning Democratic backing, and commitments by centrist leaders to navigate a broader arc of U.S.-Israel diplomacy.
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett announced an alliance with Yair Lapid to unite the opposition against Benjamin Netanyahu, unveiling an "Israeli Renaissance" plan to bring one million olim to Israel over the next decade, form the Together list with a broad center-right bloc, and pursue day-one reforms (eight-year PM limit, seven ministries cut) plus flagship programs to integrate the ultra-Orthodox, improve education, reduce crime, enhance transportation, and bolster Israel’s global standing, aiming for a large majority in the next elections.
A Walla-published poll shows Bennett and Lapid’s Together party would win 27 seats today, four fewer than Bennett+Lapid previously, while Likud would have 28 and the opposition bloc 59 seats—still short of a 61-seat majority. Netanyahu’s coalition would hold 51 seats, with Arab parties at 10. The result suggests the merger creates a larger party but not a larger anti-Netanyahu bloc; Eisenkot’s potential entry could boost the merged list to about 41 seats, though not enough to flip the balance without Arab party alignment. The poll surveyed 500 people with a 4.4% margin of error.
Former PMs Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid announced a merger of their parties into a new bloc called Together, aiming to unite the opposition against Benjamin Netanyahu in elections due later this year. Bennett would lead the alliance, Lapid stressed trust between the partners, and the plan includes a national inquiry into the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023 (a move Netanyahu’s government has rejected). The alliance follows past collaborations that briefly toppled Netanyahu and polls have shown Bennett as a leading challenger, though seat projections vary (an April N12 poll put Bennett at 21 seats to Netanyahu’s 25).
Former Israeli prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid announce a joint run against Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming elections.
Two former Israeli prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid said they will merge their parties into a single faction to unite the opposition against Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of upcoming elections, aiming to overcome internal divisions and focus on winning.
US physicist Charles Bennett and Canadian computer scientist Gilles Brassard win the ACM Turing Award for the BB84 quantum cryptography scheme, a breakthrough that uses quantum physics to detect any eavesdropping and may secure future digital communications; the prize includes $1 million.