Yair Lapid: Saar and Bennett are just talking, after the elections they will sit under me

March 3, 2021   

Gideon Saar and Naftali Bennett have made it clear that they will not sit in the government under Yair Lapid as prime minister, but the Yesh Atid chairman understands things a little differently. Amit Segal reported that although Yair Lapid has not declared himself a candidate for prime minister, in an interview with the website Kol al Nas he implied that he could serve in the position and the others would sit under him. Lapid, who leads the center-left bloc and whose party is stable in all polls as the second largest party after the Likud, made it clear that Bennett and Saar's boycotts are just "campaign talk." According to him, "These are sentences that are said to earn a point or two. The day after the elections, they sit and talk. These (Saar and Bennett) are people I know and know how to work with. It will be fine.".