Jerusalem, Oct. 30 -- Opposition leader and B'Yachad No. 2 Yair Lapid has described the anti-Netanyahu bloc's performance in Tuesday's election as a "win on points", despite falling short of the 61 seats needed for a parliamentary majority, and urged supporters to be patient as efforts begin to form a government.
"On Tuesday at 22:00, we all stared at the screen and waited for one number. 61. It didn't appear. Not for us, and certainly not for him," Lapid wrote on X on Friday, referring to the number of seats required for a majority in the 120-member Knesset.
The anti-Netanyahu bloc secured a combined 67 seats, but its path to power remains complicated by the refusal of three Jewish-led parties - Yashar, B'Yachad and Yisrael Beytenu - to ...