Now, the horse trading starts: Likud-Lapid-Bennett and... Livni?

Jonathan Tobin sees a coalition of Likud, Yesh Atid (Lapid), Jewish Home (Naftali Bennett). That would be 61 already. He also sees Tzipi Livni going in. The Haredi parties would be left outside in this scenario.

Though many, especially in the foreign press, tended to lump Lapid in
with Labor as part of a center-left faction, his positions on security
and defense issues are quite compatible