Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid’s coalition has been hit from an unexpected direction. In a surprise move, MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi of Meretz announced today that she was quitting the governing coalition, thus joining Idit Silman of Yamina who made a similar move during the Knesset recess.
In the letter she sent to Bennett and Lapid, Rinawie Zoabi wrote: “The month of Ramadan was unbearable. The scenes we witnessed on the Temple Mount of violent policemen against a congregation of worshippers, and the funeral of the journalist Shereen Abu Akleh, have led me to just one personal, moral