The leaders of Israel\u2019s \u201cchange bloc\u201d signed a joint declaration pledging to stop attacking one another and their parties until the next government is formed, as part of a coordinated effort to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government.<\/p>\n
Yair Lapid, Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Liberman, Yair Golan and Gadi Eisenkot signed the document at Lapid\u2019s Tel Aviv home on Saturday night, a month before the election.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom today until the formation of the government, none of us or anyone acting on our behalf will attack a fellow party in the bloc or its leader,\u201d the document stated.<\/p>\n
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The five acknowledged their ideological differences but committed to working together immediately after the election to form a government. They also pledged to increase voter turnout and secure a majority to safeguard and strengthen Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.<\/p>\n
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Under the agreement, three joint working groups would be established within 48 hours. One would draft the next government\u2019s basic guidelines, including equal sharing of service obligations, a state commission of inquiry into October 7, term limits for the prime minister, a constitution and an action plan for the government\u2019s first 100 days.<\/p>\n
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Another group would focus on voter turnout, preparations for election day and protecting the integrity of the vote. A joint communications team would coordinate messaging and counter fake news and smear campaigns.<\/p>\n
The signatories committed to upholding the agreement \u201cin both letter and spirit\u201d and called on citizens to vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The leaders of Israel\u2019s \u201cchange bloc\u201d signed a joint declaration pledging to stop attacking one another and their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-628744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}