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Change Bloc Leaders Meet at Lapid's Home as Uninvited Gantz Parks Truck Outside

Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of opposition leader Yair Lapid, in a navy suit and blue tie, seated with clasped hands at a white-clothed meeting table set with water bottles, glasses and orchids, listening to a dark-suited guest seen from behind, drawn from a January 2023 State Department photograph of a Jerusalem meeting; an archival image for context, not a depiction of the September 26, 2026 change-bloc gathering in the sukkah of Lapid's Tel Aviv home or of Benny Gantz's truck outside.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid hosted Naftali Bennett, Yashar! chairman Gadi Eisenkot, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Lieberman and Democrats chairman Yair Golan in the sukkah of his Tel Aviv home on Saturday night, the first joint meeting of the change bloc's party leaders in the current election campaign. The bloc had announced that the meeting would coordinate its moves. On his way in, Golan wrote that the goal before them is greater than any party or personal interest, and that their disagreements must be dwarfed by the magnitude of the hour. Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz, who was not invited, placed a truck opposite Lapid's home reading "The blocs are keeping Israel stuck."

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