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Wednesday, May 13, 2020
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Blue and White, Derech Eretz sign coalition agreement
The Blue and White party has signed an agreement with the Derech Eretz party, finalizing the agreement to bring the small party into Benny Gantz’s bloc in the new government.
Derech Eretz is comprised of just two MKs — Yoaz Handel and Zvi Hauser — who were part of Moshe Ya’alon’s Telem party in the previous iteration of Blue and White and broke off to join Gantz when the alliance split up due to Gantz’s decision to enter into a coalition with Benjamin Netanyahu.
Handel is reportedly slated to become communications minister while Hauser could chair the powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
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