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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Thousands turn out for Bennett and Lapid’s first campaign rally
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Thousands of supporters of former prime minister Naftali Bennett and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s new united Together slate gather at the Tel Aviv Expo for the new party’s first campaign rally.
Organizers estimate 3,500 people are in attendance.
Launching their joint campaign in Herzliya late last month, the pair stated that they were uniting “to win the elections and to establish a Zionist government.”
If elections were held today, Bennett and Lapid’s Together party would win 26 seats, the same as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, according to a poll conducted last week by Zman Yisrael, The Times of Israel’s Hebrew-language sister site.
Packed house at the inaugural Bennett/Lapid rally in Tel Aviv. And free hats pic.twitter.com/iZrDKBIq8l
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