Bennetts efterträdare kan ge Netanyahu comeback

Legislative elections will be held in Israel on 1 November 2022 to elect the members of the twenty-fifth Knesset. The next elections for the Knesset following the 2021 election were initially scheduled for no later than 11 November 2025, according to the four-year term limit set by the Basic Law. The unity government, formed between eight political parties, held the narrowest possible majority (61 seats) in the 120-member Knesset. In April 2022, MK Idit Silman quit the governing coalition and left it without a majority.On 20 June 2022, following several legislative defeats for the governing coalition in the Knesset, prime minister Naftali Bennett and alternate prime minister Yair Lapid announced the introduction of a bill to dissolve the Knesset, which was approved on 30 June. Simultaneously, in accordance with the rotation agreement that was part of the 2021 coalition deal, Lapid became prime minister, and serves in a caretaker capacity until the elections take place on 1 November.