{"id":25333,"date":"2026-11-03T15:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T15:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/03\/israeli-opposition-yair-lapid-calls-for-netanyahu-removal\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T15:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T15:10:16","slug":"israeli-opposition-yair-lapid-calls-for-netanyahu-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/03\/israeli-opposition-yair-lapid-calls-for-netanyahu-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Opposition Leader Calls for Netanyahu&#8217;s Ouster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yair Lapid, leader of the opposition in Israel, called on Tuesday for the removal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging an end to his tenure and that of his cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of a meeting of the coalition opposing Netanyahu, Lapid emphasized the necessity of ousting Netanyahu despite serious efforts to undermine the election results. He stressed that a government must be formed at all costs and that Netanyahu should no longer remain in power.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting included Gadi Eizenkot, Naftali Bennett, Yair Golan, and Avigdor Lieberman, who gathered to coordinate ahead of negotiations with Isaac Herzog, President of Israel, regarding the assignment of forming the future cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>This coalition secured 48 seats in the recent Knesset elections, while at least 61 seats are needed to form a government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid urges the removal of Prime Minister Netanyahu and calls for forming a new government ahead of coalition talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}