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Israel's President Reuven Rivlin (center) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Sept. 23, 2019. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Netanyahu, Gantz to meet in final effort to negotiate a unity government deal

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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. Netanyahu...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press after a security cabinet meeting following the escalation of violence in with the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv on Nov. 12, 2019. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Netanyahu: Gantz’s plan to form minority government with Arab parties is ‘madness’

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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...
Blue and White Party chairman Benny Gantz and Israel Beitenu Party chairman Avigdor Lieberman give a joint statement to the media after a meeting for negotiations towards building a new government, at the Kfar Maccabia Hotel in Ramat Gan, on Nov. 14, 2019. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Israeli party leaders lament stalling of movement towards government coalition

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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...
Shas Party chairman and Minister of Interior Affairs Aryeh Deri, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz at a ceremony marking six years to the death of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the late religious spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews, at the Knesset the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on November 4, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90

Can Israel’s party leaders find a way out of third elections?

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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...
Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz speaks at the annual Jewish Agency Board of Governors' meeting in Jerusalem, on Oct. 28, 2019. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

If Israeli prime minister, Gantz promises to ‘embrace all streams of Judaism’

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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 Party leader Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid during a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Oct. 28, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Blue and White’s Gantz, Lapid say Netanyahu is stalling coalition talks

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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,”...
Blue and White Party head Benny Gantz attends a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on Oct. 28, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

With ball in Gantz’s court, he’s shooting for support wherever he can find it

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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...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin presents Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz with the mandate to form a new Israeli government, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Oct. 23, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Netanyahu to meet with Gantz for unity government talks

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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...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin presents Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz with the mandate to form a new Israeli government, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to form one, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Oct. 23, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Gantz vows to form ‘liberal unity government,’ invites Netanyahu to join

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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...
Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a conference of the Israeli Television News Company in the Jerusalem International Convention Center (ICC) on Sept. 3, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

As mandate passes to Netanyahu rival Benny Gantz, all eyes now turn to Mandelblit

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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...