Bennett ally Matan Kahana likely to abandon new faction leader over ideological differences, as Shaked faces a struggle to keep MKs and preserve party funding.

Silman and Orbach are now almost certain to leave Yamina and appear likely to join opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud as a token for their roles in helping bring down Bennett’s power-sharing government with now-interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid.

Kahana, a Bennett loyalist, is opposed to sitting in a government led by Netanyahu, who he blames for Israel’s political instability over the past several years. This stance puts him on a collision course with Shaked, who has long flirted with Likud and said last week that she would be willing to join a new government headed by Netanyahu without going to elections.

As reported by The Times of Israel
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