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How Yair Lapid's Gambit Ends

Coalition Wrangling

Bernard Avishai on the rising Israeli political star's coalition moves, and how they might play out.

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Leader of Yesh Atid speaks on Wednesday. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Yair Lapid, the darling-du-jour of Global Israel, is negotiating to enter the government in an ever-tighter alliance with Naftali Bennett, the rightist captain of Greater Israel.

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