Netanyahu not handing over prime minister’s residence
Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who recently had his seemingly solid 12-year hold on the position broken by an opposition coalition, has reportedly refused so far to leave the premier’s residence in the occupied city of al-Quds.
Israeli media outlets reported the development on Wednesday, adding that not only had not he surrendered the premises to current Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, but also he was using it to meet with current and former Israeli and foreign officials.
Only yesterday, he met with former United States’ ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, at the place.
The Israeli regime’s laws do not mandate the prime minister to surrender the premises to his successor in the event of departure from office, but former premiers have usually given up the place as soon as the end of their incumbencies.
The premises used to be the focal point of thousands-strong protests by Israelis, who would turn up around it every week and even try to break in, on occasions to force Netanyahu to leave office. The protesters had had it with the successive negative records that his career would yield, including his indictment in many corruption cases, his economic policies, and his mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis.
A same sense of indignation had been bubbling for long at the Knesset (Israeli parliament), where the unpopularity caused his Likud party to fail to form a ruling coalition through successive general elections.
Finally, the anti-Netanyahu camp, including Bennett’s Yamina party and opposition figure Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party, joined forces in a coalition with others to be able to oust the embattled prime minister.
Netanyahu’s refusal to give up the residence has, meanwhile, prompted a number of Knesset members to ask him to swiftly leave. An opposition group has also asked the regime’s supreme court to make him surrender the premises.
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