{"id":38449,"date":"2014-12-01T16:51:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T21:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=38449"},"modified":"2014-12-01T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T21:51:54","slug":"early-elections-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/early-elections-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Elections for Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Finance Minister Yair Lapid Monday night in what was initially described as a last-ditch effort to salvage his coalition. However, a list of stiff demands presented by Netanyahu to Lapid during the meeting \u2013 as well as a harsh statement issued by him afterward \u2013 indicated that Israel may well be headed for early elections. Lapid\u2019s brief statement after the meeting also left little room for hope that new elections can be averted.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting in his office, Netanyahu told Lapid that \u201cthe government cannot be maintained in a reality where he [Lapid] and his party incessantly attack the government in which they themselves are members,\u201d the Primes Minister\u2019s Office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Netanyahu presented five demands to Lapid, the statement said, including that he \u201cstop undermining and lashing out at the government in which he is a member,\u201d specifically when it came to construction plans in Jerusalem and Israel\u2019s relations with the United States, regarding which Lapid has voiced public criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/harsh-netanyahu-lapid-meeting-heralds-likely-elections\/#ixzz3KgYjj8ja \">full article at Times of Israel<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Finance Minister Yair Lapid Monday night in what was initially described as a last-ditch effort to salvage his coalition. However, a list of stiff demands presented by Netanyahu to Lapid during the meeting \u2013 as well as a harsh statement issued by him afterward \u2013 indicated that Israel may<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Early Elections for Israel? - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/early-elections-israel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Early Elections for Israel? - OU Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Finance Minister Yair Lapid Monday night in what was initially described as a last-ditch effort to salvage his coalition. 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