FACT CHECK · ISRAEL ELECTION 2026
Claim: "Bennett put an Arab party in the government"
TRUETHE ANSWER
Ra'am (Mansour Abbas) sat as a full partner in the Bennett-Lapid coalition, the first independent Arab party ever inside an Israeli government. It fell in Jun 2022.
SOURCE
Wikipedia, 36th government of Israel
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