As Israel has a multi-party parliamentary system (unlike the two-party presidential system in the US) PMs have always had to keep coalition partners happy. Lapid’s party has enough members to bring down the government (again unlike in the US where only the extreme acts of impeachment and removal for “high crimes and misdemeanors” can bring down a president)so Netanyahu has to give him what he wants where it does not contradict his own priorities. In any case, much of Lapid’s program is Netanyahu’s so he also makes a good scapegoat.
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