Netanyahu drawing out Gaza operation due to Lapid mandate - Likud sources
"Netanyahu is playing on the operation in Gaza to use up the days given to Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid for the mandate to form a government, without any real plan."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi in the war room.(photo credit: GPO)ByMATAN VASSERMAN/MAARIV, ARIK BENDER/MAARIV