Israeli opposition leader backs Netanyahu government to secure hostage deal

FOX first: Before taking 251 people to the Gaza Strip, where Hamas terrorists attacked Israel and killed 1,200 men and children to the Gaza Strip, there is still no pledge, and the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced possible collapse.

Netanyahu found an unexpected ally in Yair Lapid, the former Prime Minister and opposition leader Yair Lapid, who extended a “security network” to the conservative leader this week to guarantee the government while the negotiations with Hamas continued.

“This agreement is not more important than making this agreement, bringing our hostages home,” said Lapid in an interview with Fox News Digital.

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The need for the political support of Lapid, the coalition of Netanyahu, the Minister of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s right-wing leaders, Netanyahu’s President Donald Trump accepted the peace plan with Hamas and threatened to leave the coalition at many points throughout the last year.

Netanyahu’s coalition lost its majority at the Israeli Parliament in July, when the ministry abandoned the ministry after two ultra Orthodox partys, after a transition to religious students for military invasion.

The movement left Netanyahu’s coalition by controlling only 50 of the 120 chairs in Knesset.

“Now it is completely dependent on the right -right that says no to any agreement in its government [with Hamas]”Lapid explained.

When the parliament was asked to be triggered after returning from autumn on October 19, the lapid said “very likely”.

Lapid pointed out a determined period of time in Israel if Knesset triggers an early election cycle until November.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid appeals to the media other than a voting station in the Israeli coastal city, after voting in the fifth elections of the country on November 1, 2022. (Through Jack Guez/AFP Getty Images))

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Lapid believes that the people of Israel will prefer a more centralist government to cover both the right and left, it will still give priority to Israeli security, but it will be an end to the war in Gaza and that it will be a repair of Jerusalem’s international position.

“I’m sorry if there is something [it] The fact that no one in the government has a political courage to stand up and said… This is a fair war, we do what needs to be done to protect ourselves, but we are sorry for every child who lost his life, Lap Lapid said. Children should not die in adult wars. “

“As Jews, as people, as people who believe in Jewish-Christian traditions and morality, heartbreak,” he added.

Lapid said that this failure of the current government not only leads to uncertainty when it comes to Israel’s strategy to resist Hamas, but also said that there is a media bias and incorrect reporting, and in terms of international support to Israel, there is a cost even between “traditionally supporting groups of Israel”.

The opposition leader told a meeting with Netanyahu on October 7, 2023 and said that the Prime Minister looks “suddenly gray, tired and old”.

Protesters hold photos of pledge during a rally that calls for hostages of the Israeli government on August 26, 2025 in Tel Aviv and Gaza Strip in Israel. (Amir Levy/Getty Images)

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“I said something that became a cliché at that meeting – I said,” The Prime Minister has been the worst day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

“What we have to do is to create a unity government,” he said. “You have to get rid of the extremist supporters in your government and we can create a unity of government because we have an opposition, we have a unique challenge with anything I or I see.”

Lapid said Netanyahu was “reluctant” to follow this route.

“I’m sorry for this to this day. I thought it was the right thing, and I still think it’s the right thing to do.”

Netanyahu spent 15 years as the Israeli Prime Minister who served from March 2009 to June 2021 before he received the best job in December 2022.

Lapid described his long term of office as the symbol of “admirable” and “flexibility”.

“But in other ways, now, politely, I can see the benefits of the two -term boundaries you have in the United States.”

Postage families protest, demanding the release of Hamas captivity in Gaza Strip, on Saturday, August 2, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Plaza, known as the Hostage Square in Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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The opposition leader said that the Israelis thought that Netanyahu was ready for a “union government” in response to the harsh coalition and that the upcoming elections would be “interesting”.

“These political lines will pass and will withstand hope,” he added, referring to the block he built. “I know it sounds like big words, but I’m telling you, that’s what we need right now.

Lapid, “It was the two most difficult years of everyone’s life. And for the first time in a long time, the fragility of Israeli society was concrete for us. And we must rebuild.”

Netanyahu’s office did not answer Fox News Digital’s questions when this report was published.