 understanding that we have made a right call for the State of Israel. A year ago, we formed a government that many thought was – many thought to be impossible. We formed this government to stop this crazy loop Israel was under. Israel, a year ago, saw unemployment, riots throughout the country, rockets towards Jerusalem, and more than all else, governmental paralysis, a tough one. I've decided to make a move, the toughest move of my life, but also the most Zionist move of my life. And thank God we were able to form a government, a good government for Israel together. We took Israel out of the abyss. We have achieved a lot during the past year. First and foremost, we brought to the front lines the values of decency and fairness. We moved to a culture of us together. We, Israel, was managed again. The business was operating again. We believe that we can put the disagreements aside for the sake of the country, and like in the reserves or in the workplace, people with different outlooks, different views. We worked for a greater cause. In recent weeks, we did everything that was possible to maintain this government that we believe its continuation is a national interest. Believe me, we've turned every single stone rock. Not for our sake we did it, but for the sake of our beautiful country, for the sake of you, citizens of Israel. Past Friday, I've held a series of conversations with legal and security experts, and I've realized that the bottom line is that in 10 days, with the West Bank regulation expiring Israel as a state, we'll go into unthinkable chaos. I could not facilitate that. We did not spare any attempts to promote those regulations, but unfortunately those efforts did not bear fruit. And so my friend, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, and I decided to work together to dissolve parliament and set elections on an agreed-upon date while making sure that even during the transition period, the government, the country will continue. There is a pressing need of the move to prevent the expiration date of the West Bank regulation law. In the past weeks, the opposition has turned in an unprecedented manner. In recent weeks, the security interests of the State of Israel for political means, and during my tenure, I made sure that no political consideration will impact, will be impacted by politics. And even now, we will make sure that not even one day of damage will take place, will not take place rather. We have decided in 2022 to be the mother who is protecting the life of her kid, even if paying a personal cost. I'm standing here alongside Yair Lapid that, with God willing, will soon become Prime Minister befitting the agreement between us. In the past year, I've learned to know Lapid in the most critical moments. We've worked together. Yair is portraying the morals of decency and responsibility, what you're calling Yiddish a mensch, and he's representing a major chunk of Israeli society. We had and we still have some disagreements and that's fine, but more than that, more than the disagreements, is the acknowledgement or understanding that the country is bigger than the two of us, and we're steering the wheel only to the benefit of the State of Israel. In the coming days until Parliament will be dissolved and the rotation agreement to kick start, we'll help him through a very thorough explanation. There's a government to how symbolic Lapid is commenting. We are rekindling the lights. I will stand alongside Lapid and may do whatever I can to make sure he succeeds in this holy task. I've heard once from a friend called the mother of one of the three teenagers who were abducted in Hebron that in the three weeks when their destiny was unclear and the State of Israel, the people of Israel, stood united. There was an understanding of what it means to stand together in unity and even when the lights went off, those who saw the room full of lights could not forget this site. In the past year, the light took over again and we could have seen people from left to right work together to take care of one another and to put the disagreements aside without giving up our stances and this memory, this knowing that we're not really that divided as some are suggesting or trying to tell us. We cannot unsee. This will become ingrained in our consciousness. People, we are brothers. It was a special year. We worked together. We passed a budget. After three years, we stabilized the economy. We brought to economic flourishing the biggest one in the world. We overcome the waves of coronavirus without one day of lockdown. We vowed and we delivered. We brought back thousands of COVID-unemployed back to business. The country went back to be handled, to be run properly. The campaign against Iran continues under security level. We are communicating with our ally, the United States, to make sure Israel's interests will be maintained and, as you all know, we were able to foil or prevent the signing of a renewed nuclear deal but without burning our relations with Washington, with the U.S. In many years, I believe that we will be fully aware of what happened here in the past year and we are still determined to cut the octopus head and not just the tentacles when it comes to Iran. On the southern border, we've seen the quietest here in the past decade. Teenagers on the Gaza border communities experienced their most quiet year. We have restored deterrents. We stopped those bags of money for Hamas. Since we worked to prevent the rearment of terror groups in Gaza and we did not allow Hamas to dictate us how to pursue a parade in our capital, Jerusalem, we have restored the national parade but we've also dealt with a murderous terror wave. My heart, my mind is with every family of those who were killed. I was under my responsibility and I take full responsibility and this is why we've sent the Shin Bet posters and the police and the IDF to work day and night in the northern part of the West Bank to make sure that we will not see those terrorists in Petah Tikva and Tel Aviv. There are many other areas in which we have made some advancement and there will be time for conclusions. But it's not I who did it. It's us. How important and how good it is to work together. For Minister Lapid and I, I talked this evening with all the fellow, our fellow coalition members, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Finance Minister Avigdor Limeran, the Justice Minister Gidon Saar, Transportation Minister Mahmouli, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Rahm Liederman. So I told them at my bureau that I am proud of them and in our partnership that would not have been possible without their willingness to join forces. So before we begin campaigning, let's remember that when there is a mutual goal, we can work together. And I now want to talk to those who did not elect me and those who have this grudge towards me. I understand you. The move that we did was not an easy one, but just for you to understand or to know, I did it for God's sake. I believe that this is the only way to take Israel out of the abyss. We were unable to let it continue the way it was. I was unable to get away from that notion. When you become Prime Minister, you see a bigger, greater perspective. I've realized how resilient we are as a people, how much might we have, how much kindness this nation, our people have. And I know that this will continue as such. And I would like to thank Gilat, my wife and my children that carried a burden with me and received crazy WhatsApp messages and tough words, but they were part of the journey, and they knew it was for the sake of the State of Israel. That was annoying on that for a while. And I want to thank my fellow party members and more than all else. I would like to thank you, citizens of Israel, on this rare privilege I had to serve you as Prime Minister. Thank you very much. Citizens of Israel, I will have many other opportunities to speak to the nation. At this point in time, I would like to thank my partner, Nafsali Bennett, for the responsibility he's demonstrating today that he is putting the State before any personal interest. And I would like to thank you for another thing, but our friendship overcame many challenges but always won. Prime Minister Bennett is younger than me, and we still have some maneuvers together. He's brave, he's wise, and I have no doubt that his place, position at the leadership of the country will continue for many years now. A few words about what to expect. We have the cost of a living issue. We have the fight against Iran and Hezbollah to face the forces threatening to undermine Israeli democracy, Israel to a non-democratic state. What we've seen in recent days here is another proof that the Israeli system needs fundamental change, fundamental correction. A year ago we started this correction, this fix thing. We are continuing it now and we're continuing it together. What we need to do today is to go back to the notion of Israel unity, not to let the dark forces to dissolve us from within, to remind ourselves that we love one another, we love our country, and only together we shall win. Thank you very much. I just heard, okay, we have just heard Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid speak there in the Knesset as they of course intend to bring a dissolving of the parliament, a bill next Wednesday, a week from Wednesday, and that of course will lead to a set of new elections that most likely at this stage look like they'll be set for October 25th. And with us still in studio, Dr. Yossi Baylin, a former Israeli Justice Minister, lead negotiator of the Aslo Accords, Owen Altman, our senior correspondent, and Mikhail Klaw, the president of the Likud Supreme Court, himself a former Knesset member. And Owen, I'm just going to note this, it's striking to me and I want to get your reaction, but Naftali Bennett, that to me almost sounded more like a farewell speech than an election speech, whereas Yair Lapid's very short remarks did sound a little more on the election side. It was exactly what I was going to say. I mean, we saw in the studio in the run-up to the address how the election campaign even here was already starting, right, and all the politicians, particularly opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu getting out of the blocks to make their campaign speech. But yes, this was Bennett's opportunity, as he sought to talk about his legacy and to start writing the history of what this government was, about what this government did as he sees it, and as he wants history to see it. Obviously, the criticisms of the government and the criticisms of the speech, again, not represented at the podium, were that it didn't represent public opinion in Israel, right, that it didn't represent the will of the public that tilts much more to the right than did this government. But at any rate, Bennett putting out the list of achievements he was able to achieve with this government over the course of the year, putting out a substantial list. Obviously, there's unfinished business. Yair Lapid alluded to a major one of item on that list of unfinished business, the issue of the cost of living, a simmering political issue here in Israel. Obviously, the fight against Iran that continues. There's also the issue of violence, particularly in Arab communities, but not only that it's also an item of unfinished business. Yossi Bail, and of course, what I had as he did before.