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Are Bennett and Lapid Still Together?

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Nov 12
Former Israeli Prime Minister and Beyachad party chairman Naftali Bennett speaks alongside opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yair Lapid at the party’s election headquarters in Tel Aviv, following the closing of polling stations and the release of exit poll results on Israel’s general election night, October 28, 2026. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

It’s Thursday, November 12, and “There’s a rule in politics: when Bennett and I are silent, it’s a sign something is happening,” Yair Lapid said on the day of the Knesset swearing-in ceremony. What does that say about the opposite situation, the more frequent one, in which Lapid and Bennett talk?

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