“The situation is tough. It can’t continue like this. [Prime Minister Naftali] Bennett is bringing us all down with him, into an abyss.”
A senior minister from the leftwing flank of the ruling coalition offered this bleak prognosis April 12. In a conversation with Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, the minister expressed disappointment with Bennett, who was unable to hold his tiny faction together. The minister was responding to the surprise decision by Knesset Member Idit Silman to bolt from the coalition last week. As a result, the coalition lost its slender, one-seat majority in the Knesset.
