Facing a coalition deal that threatens Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu's premiership, the right-wing leader is offering his own power-sharing agreement to former allies
Yair Lapid is seeking to forge a diverse alliance the Israeli media has dubbed a bloc for"change", which would include the nationalist hardliner Naftali Bennett as well as Arab-Israeli lawmakers.
Netanyahu, 71, who faces trial on fraud, bribery and breach of trust charges which he denies, has held onto power through a period of political turmoil that saw four inconclusive elections in under two years . Bennett, 49, was widely expected to announce, possibly as early as Sunday, whether he would team up with Lapid, whose centrist Yesh Atid party placed second to Netanyahu's right-wing Likud in the latest election two months ago.
To form a government with Lapid, Bennett would first have to rally his own party's legislators, despite a closer political affinity to Netanyahu's Likud.
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