Published: 31 March 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Labor’s Peretz and Shmuli on the way to unity government – reports (Times of Israel)
Israel’s once-venerable centre-left party will take just two lawmakers into coalition, with leader and prominent MK said set to receive economy and welfare cabinet posts
Knesset panel okays breakup of Blue and White; Gantz keeps name (Times of Israel)
Yesh Atid and Telem separate from centrist faction while rightist MKs Hendel and Hauser split off to form new faction
Gantz’s party likely to get defence, justice portfolios in Netanyahu government (Haaretz)
Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc to retain health and finance portfolios; Gantz to become prime minister in September 2021, according to likely coalition agreement
Benny Gantz never wanted to lead, and that makes all the difference (Haaretz)
Netanyahu's new junior partner, whom the centre-left camp tried almost by force to dress in Yitzhak Rabin's bloodstained uniform, was staring down two awful possibilities
Gantz has awarded Netanyahu immunity, and there's no going back (Haaretz)
YOSSI VERTER: One casualty of the coronavirus crisis in Israel is political. On Thursday, the alternative to Benjamin Netanyahu’s rule died. It’s hard to see when a new alternative will arise. It was probably the last.
Abandoning core vow, doesn’t Gantz risk harming the democracy he said he’d save? (Times of Israel)
DAVID HOROVITZ: The Blue and White leader is laudably espousing unity amid our health and political crises. But at what cost?
Cartoon: Tamar Blumenfeld
