Former Israeli prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid announced on Sunday that they are merging their parties — Bennett 2026 and There is a Future — into a single electoral list called "Together" (Beyahad in Hebrew), with Bennett as its leader, ahead of elections due no later than October 2025. The alliance is designed to consolidate a fragmented opposition against incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose Likud party polls neck-and-neck with the new combined list at roughly 24–25 seats each in the 120-seat Knesset (Israel's parliament). Bennett, a right-wing former tech entrepreneur and army commando, and centrist Lapid, a former television journalist, previously governed together in a short-lived coalition from 2021 to 2022 that ended Netanyahu's then-12-year tenure; their renewed pact is seen as their most credible bid yet to deny him another term, with some polls suggesting the broader opposition bloc could reach the 61-seat threshold needed to form a government.