Blue and White members reject minister’s comment, say coalition to stay intact

Blue and White members are distancing themselves from party minister Miki Haimovich’s remark earlier today that a growing group within Benny Gantz’s party favors breaking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and toppling the current unity government.

“This is the time to put aside anything else, important as they may be, and focus on what is the most important right now for the citizens of Israel — saving lives and rehabilitating the economy,” says Minister Omer Yankelevich.

“An election right now won’t solve any problems; it will only intensify all the problems,” she writes on Twitter.

Several Hebrew-language news outlets quote unnamed sources within the party as saying Haimovich’s words only reflect her own opinion. They note that no alternative coalition can be realistically formed to avert elections.