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Chronic Inferiority Of Israel On June 21, 2022, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his deputy, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, announced their decision to dissolve the Knesset (parliament) and hold early general elections. According to the agreement, Lapid would take over as interim prime minister and Bennett would become the alternative prime minister in charge of the Iranian dossier. We should remind that Israel has had a terrible political turmoil over the past few years, and the new elections will be the fifth in three and a half years. On April 9, 2019, incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party won 35 of the 120 seats in the Knesset. His main rival, the white-blue coalition led by Benny Gantz and his partner Yair Lapid, also won 35 seats. But neither was able to form a government, so the parliament was dissolved, and new elections were scheduled for September 17 of that year. This time the Blue and White alliance led by Ganz and Lapid won 33 seats, while the Likud won 32. Again, neither party was able to form a government within the necessary time, so the Knesset was dissolved and new elections were scheduled for March 2020. At that time the Likud won 36 seats, and the Blue and White won 33 seats, but again they failed to form a government. Netanyahu and Gantz agreed to form a government in relay. But there was a disagreement between Netanyahu and Gantz over the budget which was not passed. The Knesset was dissolved in December 2020. During the March 2021 election campaign, Netanyahu’s Likud won 30 seats, and the White and Blue alliance between Lapid and Gantz fell apart. Netanyahu still failed to form a government, so a shaky bloc was organized between eight parties that were united by the idea of removing Netanyahu from power. Thus, on June 13 last year, a coalition government emerged. The parties agreed that the premiership would rotate between Lapid, the leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, and Bennett, the leader of the right-wing Yamina party. Bennett assumed office first, and Lapid was scheduled to succeed him in September 2023. Until then Lapid would be content with serving as temporary head of government for a few months. The bloc also included New Hope (right wing), led by Gideon Saar; Yisrael Beiteinu (a nationalist right wing party hostile to religious Jews), led by Avigdor Lieberman; the White and Blue led by Benny Gantz; Labor led by Merav Michaeli; and Meretz (left wing) led by Nitzan Horowitz; and the United Arab List led by Mansur Abbas.