Leaders of the parties slated to form the next opposition meet in the Knesset and issue a joint statement vowing to work together against the incoming right wing-religious government.
“We will work together to fight this backward, anti-democratic government that is being established, which will dismantle Israel from within,” say party leaders Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid, Benny Gantz of National Unity, Merav Michaeli of Labor, Avigdor Liberman of Yisrael Beytenu and Mansour Abbas of Ra’am.
“When we return to power, we promise to cancel any extremist legislation that harms democracy, security, the economy or Israeli society,” they add.
A representative of Hadash-Ta’al — which will also be in the opposition but does not generally cooperate with the other parties — was not present.
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