This government can last providing there is not to much infighting. Right now Bibi has 94 MKs in his coalition. 29 of them come from Kadima 28 are from Likud and the other 37 come from YB, Shas, National Union, UTJ and Baraks little party. Bibi has had enough coalition partners to last this long without Kadima so if he lost Kadima he could probably get the same group together again but if he lost the others he has Kadima as a buffer. However it goes Bibi has the numbers to lose one group and survive so right now nobody in the coalition can hold him to ransom Lapid on the other hand is now desperate and all he can do is attack Bibi because right now he is in a nightmare scenario. Rather than imploding and half their seats going to Lapid Kadima have been thrown a lifeline and it may be what they need to survive the next election at his expense. Bibi has a coalition large enough to do things like change the Tal Law and he wants to get more haredi into the workplace which were all Lapid promises. Lapid is a party based a famous individual and the longer he has to wait for the election for more his fame wanes because he no longer has the tv to remind everybody who Yair Lapid is. Lapid also has no real policies and this whole charade of creating a political party based around one man is nothing more than a fast track to power for him. Join a mainstream party and there is no guarantee he will even be placed high enough on the party list to win a seat, form your own party and your not only guaranteed a seat but because others got elected as well by latching onto your name then your guaranteed a seat in the coalition if your party wins enough seats. Hopefully we are now seeing the begining of the end of Yair Lapid because he has nothing to contribute other than hatred of haredi and I would rather not see people waste their votes on gimicks like him when they could vote for a mainstream party with an ideology and plans to run the country.

Wht does the press waste print soaces on this lapid character. He ie a nobody !!!!

party: "SHAMENET".... Let's see you do that Yair.

Finally someone who menas what he says, time to stand up to the political blackmail of the harideem

"The current government is still standing because of the political, economic and sectorial bribe it pays," In that case we should ask to whom it may concern the new coalition goverment? ... If Israel has a technologically advanced marked economy that grew about 5 to 10% per year since 2005, and despite the propaganda of an Israeli military strike on Iran, the Israeli markets shows during the first trimester of 2012 a declining in public and investors trust. If you were today our Israeli Prime Minister what would have you done to build or to recover the public trust?

"He further emphasized that he was not personally against the haredi community, adding that he did not want his party to take an anti-haredi stance. "I want to take part in a government that includes Zionist political parties," Lapid said. Albert Einstein was not anti-zionist but he refused the goverment offer to become the President.. Question for Mr. Lapid: When you said that you want to be part of a goverment that includes all Zionist parties, are you calculating to win also the support of Naturei Karta? If the israelis are considered as Zionists, and Zionist are the people with the right to govern Israel, how are you going to promote equality for all citizens if according to them zionism cant be understand from judaism perspective?

why every time this power-hungry moron opens his mouth, YNET reports as the major news of the day! He's not even in the Knesset and yet YNET gives him more press coverage than most Ministers of the government!

How is a tv personality, without the proper academic qualifications, allowed to be a member of the government and head a political party?? If find this not only disturbing, but extremely dangerous.!

The only thing that Lapid stands for is a hatred of the haredi and whilst you might not like the haredi because they don't go into the army etc in the bigger picture does that matter at all? Would you rather have a PM who knows how to deal with economic & security matters or one that knows how to hate haredi? Lapid stands for nothing and the only real policies he has are popularist ones like haredi bashing or the occasional serious policy that he has poached from one of the mainstream parties. I suggest you don't waste your vote on election day and vote for a man who is all religious hatred and no substance and instead vote for a mainstream party whose basic ideology you agree with because unlike Lapid they will get worthwhile things done.

and see what happens to arrogant, selfish and power-horny people who pretend that they care about Israel. My prediction is that by 2013 politican wannabee Yair Lapid will be history.

" Lapid used Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz as an example, calling him a "minister-without-portfolio who is costing the State millions of shekels without actually doing anything." But according to some sources, ministers without portafolio was a practice from Israeli goverments since the independence of Israel in 1948. Are you expecting as a Prime Minister to avoid votes from ministers without portafolio in your cabinet if they can vote in your favor?

The entire objection to this coalition is laughable because thats how the system has worked for 64 years. Traditionally Labor & Likud would form a coalition with the religious and if needed parties like Meretz. Governments have also always been calling for unity governments because the larger a coalition the more stable it is. Last time it was Kadima, Labor, religious and YB Before they had internal party fighting Bibi's coalition was Labor, YB, religious and National Union. Eventually Barak split off from Labor formed his own little party and Labor quit the coalition. Now Bibi has Kadima, the religious, National Union and YB. The people who are really against this are the left who have now been totally sidelined, the Livni loyalists in Kadima who prefer to sit in opposition doing nothing and of course Lapid who had big dreams of running one of the largest parties in the Knesset in September at Kadima's expense but now Kadima has been thrown a lifeline, Bibi has got the numbers to do things like change the Tal Law and the longer Lapid is in coalition and not on the tv the more the fame factor wears off. Other than that Bibi has not done anything different with the formation of this coalition than any other government on the left or right has ever done.

But if Lapid is arguing how a single minister-without-portfolio like Mofaz is costing millions of shekels to the "israeli economy" perhaps is time to ask to whom it may concern how much money the State have spent in 64 years in ministers without portafolio? that could be a pretty sume of money .Is the Tal Law cheeper than a few dozens of ministers without portafolio?