From Bennett said set to skip meeting of anti-Netanyahu bloc chiefs due to father’s yahrzeit
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Former prime minister Naftali Bennett will not attend a planned meeting of leaders of the anti-Netanyahu bloc on September 20 because he will be marking the 10th anniversary of his father’s death, known in Judaism as yahrzeit, Channel 12 news reports.
Earlier today, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s office announced that party chiefs from the so-called “change bloc” will meet in the “first in a series of meetings aimed at shaping the basic guidelines of the next government.”
The meeting was set to bring together Lapid; Bennett, chairman of the new Bennett 2026 party; former IDF chief of staff and ex-Blue and White–National Unity party No. 2 Gadi Eisenkot; Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman; Blue and White-National Unity chief Benny Gantz; and The Democrats party head Yair Golan.
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