The interim PM, in his first address, decries the scourge of extremism that ‘flows like lava’ from Israel’s politics into the streets.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid gives a first televised address to the nation, July 2, 2022. (Channel 12 screenshot)
Yair Lapid is no longer bound by the ideological constraints of an eight-party, radically diverse coalition. That partnership has collapsed, the Knesset dispersed on Thursday, and elections were set for November 1.
Yet in his first address to the nation as interim prime minister on Saturday night, Lapid gave a speech that few in that extraordinary right-left-center-Arab coalition would find problematic. And that was precisely his point.
























