JERUSALEM POST
Bennett’s strategy: Make Smotrich fall guy for Netanyahu losing power
by Gil Hoffman
April 7, 2021

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will host Religious Zionist Party leader Bezalel Smotrich followed by political kingmaker Naftali Bennett at his office in Jerusalem on Thursday evening, in meetings that could determine whether he has any chance of forming a government. Sources close to Bennett said he will tell the prime minister he has his full support to form a government and is willing to compromise to make it happen. He will tell him that his plans to form a government in which he would rotate as prime minister with Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid are currently off the table. “There are no contacts and no talks [with Lapid],” a source close to Bennett said. READ MORE