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Lapid: Coalition faces difficulties, but could yet last a long time
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022. (Niv Musman/GPO)
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid tells his Yesh Atid faction that the new situation in the Knesset, with the coalition lacking a majority, “creates difficulties” and will hold up legislation, “but there have been such governments in Israel that lasted a long time.”
He adds: “I watched Itamar Ben Gvir this week cynically using the blood of those murdered [in the terror attack] in Elad and I was reminded of how important it is to maintain this government, how dangerous the alternative is.”
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