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After the election, many pundits argued that Yesh Atidâs strength heralded the rise of the moderate center that could get negotiations back on track.
But when the polls indicated that Yesh Atid would garner about a dozen seats in the next Parliament, Mr. Lapid insisted that it would win 20 or more and that he could best translate the simmering anger of working, middle Israel into political power.
But a vigorous election campaign, in which he has accused the prime minister of "leading Israel into unnecessary elections", looks like ensuring that Yesh Atid will have a smaller but still significant number of seats in the next Knesset and make life difficult for Mr Netanyahu.
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Rosenfeld, the police spokesman, disputed the Yesh Din figures, saying that complaints about settler violence are often filed long after the alleged crime.
I'll begin by confessing to the one thing I definitely got wrong: I did not anticipate that the centrist party Yesh Atid, apparently Israel's new kingmaker, would come away with 20 seats in the Knesset.
After the preliminary election results Tuesday night, Mr. Lipman, speaking at Mr. Lapid's event in Tel Aviv, said that he had joined Yesh Atid because he believed in the party.
Ofer Shelah, a member of the centrist Yesh Atid party that opposes Netanyahu, said that while the military operation was justified, the bombastic rhetoric announcing it was not.
Yesh Din estimates that the extent of the claims against Israel could amount to tens of millions of dollars or more.
The ultra-Orthodox parties would not join a coalition that included the resolutely secular Yesh Atid.Mr Netanyahu has repeatedly ruled out the option of a unity government this option during the campaign.
If, as some analysts expect, Mr. Netanyahu seeks to put together a center-right coalition that includes Yair Lapid, whose Yesh Atid party won 19 seats in the 120-seat Parliament, it could sand away the roughest edges of Mr. Netanyahu's existing right-wing coalition.
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