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Bennett: I will try to form a unity government if coalition talks fail

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Published: 23 April 2021

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Yamina heads accuses PM of only being interested in a fifth election; Netanyahu may try to seek direct election as PM and bypass party blocs

Bennett: If Netanyahu can’t build coalition, I’ll try to form a unity government (Times of Israel)
Yamina chair rips PM for holding Israel hostage, pushing for ‘5th, 6th, 7th election’; Netanyahu says Bennett cut a deal to be right-wing ‘head of a pin’ PM of left-wing coalition

With two weeks left to form government, Netanyahu escalates attack on key player Bennett (Haaretz)
Yamina chairman says he prefers to form right-wing gov't, but says Netanyahu is only interested in fifth election; Netanyahu's Likud party slammed Bennett's 'out of control ambitions to become prime minister at any cost'

Netanyahu gives up on forming a government (Jerusalem Post)
He said he would instead seek a direct election for prime minister, which he said would pass if Yamina supported it

Netanyahu has lost control of his own racist creation (Haaretz)
Likud’s primacy is under threat. The rest of the right wing is rushing to reposition itself and appeal to the million Israelis who voted Likud in the last election but may soon become political orphans

‘Traitor, stinking Russian’: Abused by PM’s backers, Elkin’s wife goes to police (Times of Israel)
Pro-Netanyahu demonstrators gathered outside New Hope MK Ze’ev Elkin’s Jerusalem home, called Maria Elkin ‘a disgusting gentile’; similar incident occurred last week
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