Blue and White: Immunity request will be weighed despite PM’s ‘delay efforts’

The Blue and White party issues a response to Yuli Edelstein’s announcement that he’ll convene the Knesset plenum next week to vote on forming the committee that will deliberate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s immunity request.

“Netanyahu is applying all possible pressure to prevent the deliberation on the immunity request, but despite the delay efforts, the immunity debates will start next week, [they] will be conducted matter-of-factly and fairly and finish before the elections,” the party says in a statement.

The Blue and White leader also weighs in.

“Netanyahu requested a debate on immunity — Netanyahu will get [a debate]. We’ll prevent an extreme immunity coalition from continuing to drag down Israel solely for the personal interests of Netanyahu,” Gantz writes on Twitter.