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  Why the champions of change are forming one of Israel’s most bloated governments
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Last EditedIndyGeorgia  Jun 12, 2021 08:25am
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AuthorHaviv Rettig Gur
News DateSaturday, June 12, 2021 01:10:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionThe new government has yet to be sworn in, and Yair Lapid, chief architect of the new coalition, has already chalked up one enormous failure. That, at least, is how he tells it.

The new government, he assured Monday at a meeting of his Yesh Atid party’s Knesset faction, “will be sworn in and will endure.” Unlike the previous government, he explained, it will be founded “on the right things: trust, fairness, goodwill.”

But, he admitted, there’s at least one way in which the new government will be just like the old one, and no one laments that fact more than he.

The sheer size and bloat of the new unity government — 28 cabinet ministers and six deputy ministers — will make it the third-largest in Israel’s history. That’s third out of 36, second only to the outgoing government (35 cabinet ministers) and Netanyahu’s 2009-2013 government (30 ministers).
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