Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid says the prime minister, most coalition parties, the High Court of Justice, and the attorney general all believe the outpost bill is “a bad law.”
“The new pro-Israel [Trump] administration thinks it’s a bad law,” he adds at the start of the weekly faction meeting.
He says the “only reason this law is being raised is politics.”
Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting in the Knesset, January 23, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
“They are passing a law that will endanger IDF soldiers, will endanger Israel’s international standing, will endanger our being a state of law and order, because they have problems within the coalition,” he says.
Lapid says his party will vote against the law, which was scheduled to be brought to the plenum on Monday evening for its final votes, though Netanyahu was reportedly seeking a delay to consult with the Trum
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