Netanyahu's term to form a government expires in a few hours - President Rivlin will decide

A few hours remain until the expiration of the mandate given by the president to Benjamin Netanyahu to form a government, and the political system is eager to find out to whom Reuven Rivlin will grant the mandate in his place.
In the bloc of parties trying to bring about political change, workers are working so that the chairman of the Yesh Atid party, Yair Lapid, will receive the mandate and with him a large force to control events in the near future. All options are open.
Yesterday there were quite a few talks in the Netanyahu bloc to resolve the political tangle and think of ways to force the chairman of "Religious Zionism" Bezalel Smutrich to still support a narrow government in avoiding the RAAM. To this end, Netanyahu embarked on a major move in which two senior rabbis in religious Zionism - Rabbi Zvi Tao and Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu - expressed support for the government in such a format.
Despite this, Netanyahu failed to enlist the support of Smutrich and the chairman of "Jewish Power" Itamar Ben Gvir, who announced that despite the rabbis' call, they refuse the government with RAAM.
Yesterday afternoon, Netanyahu made another move, this time with Bennett, when he announced that he had agreed to a rotation in which Bennett would serve first as prime minister. "I told Bennett that in order to prevent a left-wing government, I would be willing to accede to his request for a rotation arrangement in which he would serve first as prime minister for one year," Netanyahu said in a video he published.
Shortly afterwards, Bennett responded to Netanyahu and said at the beginning of his faction meeting in the Knesset: "I heard Netanyahu's proposal and I must say that it is not understood. I did not ask Netanyahu for prime minister, but for a government. .
Gideon Saar, chairman of the Tikva Hadasha party, also announced that he refuses to join the government in which Netanyahu will serve as the replacement prime minister. "Netanyahu's one-year shift to the position of deputy prime minister is also not what new Tikva voters voted for," Saar said at his faction meeting.
The bloc of parties fighting Netanyahu also held quite a few meetings during the day in an attempt to promote the change government. But officials in the bloc make it clear that everything is still up and falling on Bennett's willingness to join the move and gamble on it with all his might. According to sources, Bennett's intentions are not definitively clear.
In anticipation of a round of consultations to be held by the president, apparently on Wednesday, Bennett met with the chairman of Ra'am Mansour Abbas. In the event that Bennett arrives with the right-wing bloc to recommend him as one man, and Abbas also decides to recommend, Rivlin will have no room for maneuver and he will have to give him the mandate.