With the floundering coalition facing multiple crises, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid marked the one-year anniversary of its formation with a plea for its political partners not to give up.

“This government has lifted the country from paralysis to growth, from weakness to deterrence, from chaos to normalcy. This government must not be stopped, we must continue to fight, for the sake of the Israeli public. Our government has accomplished in one year what [other] governments did not accomplish in 10 years,” Bennett said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting.