ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
New government, new threats
by Caroline Glick
June 18, 2021

…Although Naftali Bennett is prime minister, the real power in the government is Foreign Minister and Prime Minister-designate Yair Lapid. Lapid controls 75% of the coalition to Bennett’s 20%. The last five percent of the 61-seat coalition is controlled by Mansour Abbas, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned Islamist Ra’am Party. In the ceremony at the Foreign Ministry marking Lapid’s entry into office, Israel’s effective leader laid out his priorities. His top three goals are to rebuild Israel’s ties with the Democrat Party; with the progressive US Jewish establishment; and with the European Union. READ MORE