Blue and White to back budget delay; Gantz: If we go to elections, blood will spill in the streets

In a fiery speech, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz says that he will vote to postpone the budget, shortly after Netanyahu reaffirms Likud’s support for the delay, as the threat of elections appears to be lifted for the next 100 days.

“If we go to elections, blood will spill in the streets,” Gantz warns.

“I will never allow anyone to erode our democracy,” he says, or appoint “puppets” to public service.

That’s a jab at Netanyahu’s effort to control judicial appointments.

“Netanyahu, if you seek cooperation for the benefit of Israel’s citizens, my hand remains extended,” he says, adding that if the prime minister seeks to weaken law enforcement, he will oppose it.

Gantz says his party members, out “of national responsibility,” will back the budget delay and avert elections.