Fifty-six Knesset members recommended to President Reuven Rivlin that the mandate for forming a government be given to Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid. The list of those recommending Lapid includes all the members of his own faction, Kahol Lavan, Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope, Yisrael Beiteinu, Meretz, Labor and five out of six members of the Joint List (Ta’al and Hadash, without Balad). The United Arab List told the president that it was not recommending anyone as prime minister, but clarified that it would cooperate “in a positive manner” with whomever was tasked with forming a government. “If the U