Lapid pleads with coalition MKs to stop bill: ‘What’s happening here is a disaster’

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid says that several coalition members are against the “reasonableness” bill, urging them to stop the legislation as the final plenum votes are set to be held.

“Over the past few weeks, I have had hundreds of hours of conversations with people from within the coalition. Don’t worry, I won’t say names, but you know who you are and you know the truth. You know something terrible is happening here,” Lapid says.

He denounces the legislation as a “hostile takeover of the Israeli majority by an extremist minority, and also a hostile takeover of your party.”

“You know that what’s happening here is a disaster that can be prevented. A tragedy that we must stop,” he says.

“You can stop it. It may not be what you planned for yourself. It may not be what you came to politics for, but if you don’t stop it now, you’ll wake up at night for the next thirty years and ask yourself why you didn’t do it when you knew it was the right thing to do,” Lapid adds.