Yes, I see what you mean but what surprised me most is that Yesh Atid and Jewish Home are working tightly close. They have some similarities on the social issues, on the Orthodox Draft and , in some ways, on the economical views but their differences on foreign policy are so great that a partnership between both amazes me a lot!Foreign policy doesn't seem to be a very important issue for Lapid, so if he thinks he can advance other issues he seems content with keeping the status quo.
Actually, Yesh Atid wants a two state solution that looks closer to what Netanyahu proposed on the Bar-Ilan Speech and that is why I'm ok with its participation on Likud's Coalition. But the Jewish Home participation was just a way to please Likud backbenchers and unsatisfied right-wing voters......
That was absolutely not the reason for JH's participation at all, Bibi was quite happy leaving them out. It's simply because Lapid wouldn't agree to sit with the Haredi parties, to achieve this Lapid made an agreement with JH that they would only enter the coalition together. This left Bibi with no options with regards to the formation of the government. Bibi tried to avoid this forced coalition by offering finance to Yechimovich, but she refused so he had to make this coalition.
I believe that this Coalition won't stand for so much longer.
People always say that, sometimes it is true and other times not (like last time), it's hard to know these things in advance.
Also, one question: Why Kadima was vanished on this election?
Because Kadima, like all centrist parties, has no base, so they need to provide a compelling reason to vote for them. Instead they did nothing in four years other than infight, replace a not very popular leader with an even less popular one, and then topped it off with entering, and then leaving government in a couple of months, which made them look like a joke. On top of all this came the formation of two new new centrist parties, including one by their former leader until a few months prior and took more votes away.
