Three left-of-center leaders fail to set up anti-Netanyahu bloc

The three opposition leaders held their first meeting Sunday night in secret to forge a left-of-center bloc and a joint campaign strategy for preventing Binyamin Netanyahu heading the post-Jan 22 election government. However, Labor leader Shelly Yacimovich, Tzipi Livni, head of “The Movement,” and Yair Lapid, founder of Yesh Atid (Future), all turned out to have different plans about joining the next Netanyahu administration.