After three elections this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz have formed a unity government. But the coalition is riven by disagreements on some of Israel’s most pressing problems, causing some to doubt its sustainability.
Signs depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz, seen during a demonstration outside the Knesset, Israel's parliament, last Thursday. The sign reads"Israel is ashamed."Signs depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz, seen during a demonstration outside the Knesset, Israel's parliament, last Thursday. The sign reads"Israel is ashamed.
The new government will have a record 36 ministers and 16 deputy ministers, nearly half the 120-member Knesset, Israel's parliament. Gantz described the government as broadly representative and therefore more effective. "The people told us to stop fighting and start working for them," Gantz said. He will be defense minister before taking Netanyahu's place as prime minister in 2021, should the government endure.Netanyahu's Likud Party wants to put limits on Israel's independent judiciary, which Gantz's Blue and White Party condemns as antidemocratic.
And looming over all is pressure from Israel's right wing to annex much of the occupied West Bank, an action called for in President Trump's peace plan. Netanyahu has said he wants to do so as soon as this summer. Gantz is reluctant without the support of the international community, which strongly opposes annexation.
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