Lapid after security update with Netanyahu: ‘Israel is united against Iran’

By Lazar Berman

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2 February 2026, 8:10 pm

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Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

L-R: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, December 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); Opposition Leader and head of the Yesh Atid party MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 1, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid meet for a security update that was postponed from last week.

“The entire State of Israel is united against Iran,” writes Lapid on social media after the meeting, which took place amid sparring between the premier and opposition leader in the Knesset plenum and the social network X.

“There are no disagreements among us regarding the importance of dealing with this threat,” he continues. “It is important that Tehran knows that Israel stands united against the terrorism of the regime.”