On Monday evening, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid surprised the nation — and many of their coalition members — by announcing their intention to voluntarily disband their government and send the country back to its fifth election since 2019, likely in late October or early November.
Jeff Halper is an Israeli American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist who has lived in Jerusalem since 1973. He is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a co-founder of The One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC). He joined Radio Islam International from Jerusalem this morning.