Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid decided April 30 to withdraw the "no confidence" motion he had filed against the government, even though it was intended to be his opposition opening salvo in the Knesset’s summer session. He recognized that the Knesset was overwhelmed by a sense of emergency, stemming from the attack on Iranian facilities in Syria the night before. With the Cabinet holding an urgent meeting and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu absent from the opening session, the predominant feeling in the Knesset was that Israel was on the brink of war.
So Lapid — together with the Zionist Camp — acted in a stately manner and withdrew their "no confidence" motions. Then, just a few hours later, they watched Netanyahu seize the agenda in Israel and internationally. Netanyahu gave what can best be described as a prime-time TV performance to present Iran’s nuclear archive to the world, after it had been obtained by the Mossad in a James Bond-like operation.
