Tag: Benny Gantz
Netanyahu, Gantz to meet in final effort to negotiate a unity government deal
Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are set to meet at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, just 26 hours before Gantz’s mandate to form a government will expire.
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Netanyahu: Gantz’s plan to form minority government with Arab parties is ‘madness’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Likud lawmakers during an emergency conference call on Saturday that the Blue and White Party intends to form a minority government supported by the Arab parties, something he...
Israeli party leaders lament stalling of movement towards government coalition
With a tenuous ceasefire taking hold across southern Israel, politics has again returned to center stage.
With Israel and its legislators analyzing the fallout from two days of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, and...
Can Israel’s party leaders find a way out of third elections?
Israel’s election impasse doesn’t appear to be waning as the country is closing in on nearly two months since its second national election in September. In the past several days, various reports have emerged...
If Israeli prime minister, Gantz promises to ‘embrace all streams of Judaism’
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz said on Tuesday that if he succeeds in becoming Israeli’s next premier, he will “embrace all streams of Judaism.”
Addressing Jewish leaders from around the world at the Jewish...
Blue and White’s Gantz, Lapid say Netanyahu is stalling coalition talks
Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz said on Monday that “unfortunately no tangible progress was made” in coalition talks with Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu at their Sunday meeting.
While Gantz called the meeting “businesslike,”...
With ball in Gantz’s court, he’s shooting for support wherever he can find it
Benny Gantz and the Blue and White Party are hard at work trying to find other parties to join his coalition to give him the 61 mandates needed to form a government. Much talk...
Netanyahu to meet with Gantz for unity government talks
Blue and White and Likud party leaders Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet in the coming days to discuss the possibility of forming a unity government, the parties announced on Wednesday...
Gantz vows to form ‘liberal unity government,’ invites Netanyahu to join
Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz vowed to form a “liberal unity government” after being tasked by Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin to form a new government on Wednesday.
“I will work for all of...
As mandate passes to Netanyahu rival Benny Gantz, all eyes now turn to Mandelblit
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began the process of trying to form a government 28 days ago, he had 55 Knesset seats supporting him—32 from his Likud Party, nine from Shas, eight from...