70-strong Israeli coalition nearing completion

[Ken Burch]

17. I'm going on the interviews he's given

And from those and from most of the articles I've seen about Lapid and his party, two of the issues they placed the strongest emphasis on during the campaign were

1)Reducing the influence of the ultrareligious and removing some of the privileges they receive(such as exemption from the draft and personal subsidies so they don't have to work);

2)defending the rights and the values of more secular Israelis.

In these areas, the party is a lineal descendant of the Shinui party that Lapid's father helped organize in the 1990's, IIRC.