Israeli parliament dissolves, set for fifth poll in 4 years

JERUSALEM, 02 July 2022, (TON): Israeli lawmakers dissolved parliament, forcing the country’s fifth election in less than four years, with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid set to take over as caretaker prime minister at midnight.

After the unanimous 92-0 vote, the centrist Lapid embraced outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, whose year in charge of an unwieldy, eight-party coalition was ultimately undone by its ideological divisions.

Lapid, whose Hungarian-born father survived the Holocaust, went immediately from parliament to Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre.

The 58-year-old said in a statement “there, I promised my late father that I will always keep Israel strong and capable of defending itself and protecting its children.”

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