Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to hold onto power as prime minister. It wasn’t looking good for Netanyahu before the conflict escalated, with two minority parties having agreed to form a coalition to oust Bibi. But on May 13, Yamina party Chair Naftali Bennett, who had a nearly done deal with Yesh Atid party Chair Yair Lapid, told Lapid the deal was off. The collapse of the prospect for a so-called "government of change," based on nothing more than a shared desire to defeat Bibi, "is the direct outcome of violent clashes in mixed Jewish-Arab towns this week," writes Lapid still has until June 2 to form a government before the process is turned over to the Knesset (parliament). If the parliament can’t decide, there will be a fifth election, which would take months — and Bibi would remain prime minister in the interim.