Episode Number
60

Ben Caspit speaks this week with Channel 12’s diplomatic correspondent Dana Weiss. The senior analyst comments about Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appearing on Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of 2021. What is amazing, she notes, is not that Bennett was included in the list, but rather that Arab politician Mansour Abbas would be the one to endorse him. "This is practically science fiction, to think that this could have happened. That this leader of an extreme right party and of the settlers, would be endorsed by someone that until the last elections was considered almost as an outcast in Israeli politics," she notes.

Links:

-100 days in, Bennett’s government challenged on Iran, Gaza - Al-Monitor

-Egypt’s embrace of Bennett highlights divisions in Israeli cabinet - Al-Monitor

-Israeli state budget passes preliminary vote - Al-Monitor

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