Israel’s Lapid Seizes His Turn to Take On Netanyahu

TEL AVIV—Yair Lapid waited greater than a decade to turn out to be Israel’s prime minister this week, albeit in a caretaker capability. Now the previous talk-show host has 4 months to broaden his assist base and preserve his job earlier than the following elections in November.

Mr. Lapid has lengthy been an vital backroom participant. Before the government headed by Naftali Bennett collapsed, Mr. Lapid helped assemble an eight-party coalition together with centrists, right-wingers, leftists and an impartial Arab get together that was largely sure by a shared antipathy towards the nation’s earlier chief, Benjamin Netanyahu.