Anti-Netanyahu bloc gets second chance
The vote over the Knesset’s Arrangement Committee has offered the so-called Bloc for Change a second shot at assembling the next government.
After several months of dithering, the Bloc for Change (to remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office) dealt a major blow to the prime minister.
It was a technical but extremely significant victory: control of the parliament’s Arrangement Committee, which manages the Knesset until a new government is formed. In the not-far-off future, when we look back, we might see the vote as the moment Netanyahu lost his grip. We can already say that Yamina chair Naftali Bennett has never been as close to the prime minister’s chambers and could reach it in a matter of weeks.
It is still too early to be sure about how things will develop, but what happened yesterday in the Knesset was a clear victory for the Change Bloc headed by Yesh Atid chair Yair Lapid, Bennett and New Hope chair Gideon Saar. The Change Bloc lost its mandate to assemble a government without Netanyahu two weeks ago, but it seems they are getting a second chance.
Yesterday they got their act together. They succeeded in bringing Mansour Abbas' Ra’am party to their side, leaving the prime minister alone, and the pendulum swung to the Change Bloc.
