On April 26, Naftali Bennet , widely considered the main challenger to current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , said he would join forces with Yair Lapid of the centrist-liberal Yesh Atid party ahead of Israel 's election in October this year.

The new party's name: BeYachad, Hebrew for "together."

Bennet, a representative of the Israeli right-wing Zionist religious public, had a short one year term as a prime minister in the years 2021-2022 , and before entering politics was the head of Yesha Council, the umbrella organization of Jewish settlements' municipalities in the occupied West Bank.

Bennet hopes to secure right-wing, anti-Netanyahu support alongside Lapid, who represents secular Israelis.…