The Knesset's failure to re-authorize separate West Bank legal systems was the final straw, but Bibi remains the omnipresent issue driving Israeli politics.
By
Haggai Matar
June 21, 2022
On Monday night, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced that he would be dissolving the current Knesset, thereby triggering Israel’s fifth round of elections in just over three years for sometime in the fall. In the interim, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who was not due to become prime minister as part of this government until 2023, will take Bennett’s place at the helm.
The Bennett-Lapid government survived exactly a year and a week before crumbling. Over the past few weeks, members of Bennett’s own Yamina party have been leaving the coalition and allying with opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, while other coalition members have been conditioning their support for the government on particular pieces of legislation, such as the cancellation of a planned reform in public transportation. Thus, with no guaranteed majority in the Knesset, the government was rendered effectively dysfunctional, with party leaders already having begun to prepare for the inevitable elections.
The straw that broke the coalition camel’s back goes far deeper than the standard political wrangling. At the end of the month, Israel’s “emergency regulations,” a set of temporary laws that establish legal segregation between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, which has been renewed every five years by every government for 55 years, were set to expire. The opposition decided to vote against renewing what have been dubbed by some the “apartheid regulations,” which they fully support in principle, in order to spite the government and try to bring it down.
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