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| Yair Lapid 'rules out forming an anti-Netanyahu bloc' | Yair Lapid 'rules out forming an anti-Netanyahu bloc' |
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| Yair Lapid has said he will not join any bloc aimed at preventing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from forming a new coalition government. | Yair Lapid has said he will not join any bloc aimed at preventing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from forming a new coalition government. |
| "The outcome of the election is clear: we must work together," he said. | |
| Mr Lapid's newly-formed Yesh Atid party shocked observers by coming second with 19 seats in Tuesday's election. | Mr Lapid's newly-formed Yesh Atid party shocked observers by coming second with 19 seats in Tuesday's election. |
| Mr Netanyahu's Likud-Beitenu alliance lost a quarter of its seats in the Knesset, but remains the largest grouping with 31. | Mr Netanyahu's Likud-Beitenu alliance lost a quarter of its seats in the Knesset, but remains the largest grouping with 31. |
| Coalition talks have begun in Israel after near-complete general election results gave right-wing and centre-left blocs 60 seats each in parliament. | |
| Mr Netanyahu has offered to work with the newly-formed Yesh Atid party, a secular centrist party set up by Mr Lapid last year. | |
| "I heard talk about establishing a preventative bloc - I want to take this option off the table," Mr Lapid said in a statement on Wednesday evening. | |
| Mr Lapid said earlier that he would only join a government that was committed to reviving the peace process with the Palestinians. |