Lapid and unilateral efforts to save the Tel Aviv cabinet.
The Hebrew media claimed that the Israeli Foreign Minister had negotiated with the Knesset members to save the cabinet without informing the Prime Minister.
Israeli Foreign Minister and leader of the Yesh Etid party, Yair Lapid, held intensive talks with members of the Knesset yesterday (Saturday) in the wake of the coalition crisis in the Tel Aviv cabinet, without informing the occupying regime’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett.
According to i24, Lapid spoke with a joint list (the Arab Quartet in the Knesset) and Zionist MP Ahmed al-Taybi about financing the construction of roads in Palestinian cities in exchange for their cooperation in the Knesset.
The website of the Hebrew-language network “Kan” acknowledged the possibility of a lack of coordination between Lapid and Bennett, saying that the Israeli prime minister had not yet spoken about the talks and the details related to them.
The talks are being led by Deputy Prime Minister Nema Schultz, who is working with the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Finance to approve the request.
Al-Taybi, an Arab member of the Israeli parliament, is said to have demanded 200 million shekels (about $ 61 million) for the road project proposed by Lapid.
“The Israeli government is currently working to rebuild the neglected infrastructure throughout the country,” the Tel Aviv Foreign Ministry’s office acknowledged. “Unlike previous governments, we consider this our duty and we are pursuing it.”
Al-Taybi’s office, on the other hand, said that the request had long been sent by the Arab representatives of the Knesset to the Zionist Parliamentary Finance Committee and the Tel Aviv Minister of Transport, and that the request dates back to weeks before the crisis began for the Knesset coalition.
For the past two days, however, in response to Tel Aviv’s ongoing political differences and opposition to the current cabinet, Lapid has called for mourning and saying goodbye to the government prematurely and stressed the need to continue their work.
