Benny Gantz lauds Bennett’s pledge to enact term limits for premier, but notes it’s a flip-flop

By Sam Sokol 25 September 2025, 2:20 pm

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Former prime minister Naftali Bennett (left) and Blue and White-National Unity Party MK Benny Gantz in a composite image. (Flash90)

Blue and White-National Unity chairman Benny Gantz welcomes former prime minister Naftali Bennett’s declaration that if he wins the next election he will require his coalition partners to agree to support term limits for prime ministers.

In a statement, Gantz agrees with Bennett but criticizes him for not coming out in support of such a measure earlier in his political career.

“The law to limit the tenure of the prime minister was the first bill I submitted as an MK and one of the first laws I sought to promote in the change government together,” he tweets, adding that “regrettably, the prime minister at the time, Naftali Bennett, opposed it.”

“I congratulate Bennett for changing his mind, but the lesson from the change government is that such a law can pass only in a broad consensus government that will anchor the rules of the game, and not in a narrow and publicly illegitimate government,” Gantz adds.

The “change government” was the short-lived 2021-2022 Bennett-Lapid government.