Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid and Mansour Abbas have almost nothing in common, except a shared desire to bring PM Netanyahu’s reign to an end.
Captured in a photo that immediately went viral on social media, the unlikely trio of party leaders grinned widely Wednesday night as theyOn one side of the low coffee table sat Yair Lapid, the leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party. Across from him, Mansour Abbas, head of the United Arab List, made history as the first Arab party to join an Israeli governing coalition.
The three have almost nothing in common, except a shared desire to bring Netanyahu’s reign to an end.
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