Yair Lapid

In Statement A (June 2024), Lapid explicitly stated there are no negotiations with Netanyahu on the composition of a state commission of inquiry, and that only the Supreme Court President determines its composition — a legal principle he said he would not compromise on. In Statement B (March 2025), he endorses President Herzog's proposal regarding the commission's composition, which implicitly involves some form of political arrangement or compromise affecting how the commission is constituted — directly at odds with his earlier insistence that composition is solely the Supreme Court President's prerogative and that he would not engage in 'games.' The key tension is that Statement A rules out any political involvement in committee composition, while Statement B praises a politically-brokered proposal on that very matter.