With Zoabi's departure from the coalition, the Bennett government will have only 59 seats in the Knesset, giving the Opposition an absolute majority.

MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi (Meretz) penned a letter to Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) Thursday afternoon, informing him that she plans on leaving the coalition, and will not be serving as consul-general to Shanghai. 

Rinawie Zoabi, an Arab Israeli, added that “she cannot support a coalition that is disgracefully harassing the society I come from.”

Both Bennett and the left-wing Meretz party were reportedly surprised by her letter and learned of it from media reports.

As reported by Times of Israel
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