Israel got a new Prime Minister this weekend, and we wanted to know what that means for

the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

So we asked Alison Kaplan Summer.

I'm a journalist for Haaretz.

I live in a suburb of Tel Aviv called Rana, which also happens to be the hometown of

Israel's new Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett.

And he is refusing to move to the official Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem.

The new Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett, has chaired his first cabinet meeting

and has promised to heal the country's rifts.

This coalition contains parties with very, very different visions of what Israel should

be and what kind of a solution there should be to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, is on record as saying that he opposes a Palestinian

state, that he believes in annexation of at least part of the West Bank immediately,

and kind of a creeping annexation for the rest of the West Bank.

He really sees the greater land of Israel as the ultimate ideal vision for the state.

But this coalition also contains parties really to the very left of the Israeli spectrum,

which believe very firmly in a two-state solution.

To make things even more complicated, this is the first Israeli-government coalition

to include an Arab party, an Islamist Arab party, which obviously has its own point of

view and feels very strongly about what kind of a state should or shouldn't exist in

the land.

So pretty much it's a stalemate.

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