Yair Lapid will become the caretaker prime minister until the elections
Israel’s weak coalition government announced Monday that it would dissolve parliament and call new elections.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Monday agreed to dissolve parliament.
Bennett said at a joint press conference that the decision to dissolve parliament “was the right one for Israel” and that Lapid would “take over as prime minister in an orderly manner”.
The Israeli prime minister said that it was “not an easy moment, but we took the right decision for the State of Israel.”
The election will be Israel’s fifth in three years, and it will set the stage for the possible return to power of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
However, new polls showed that the opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu would not be able to secure the majority needed to form a coalition if elections were held now.