Coalition lashes ‘childish’ Gantz boycott: ‘He thinks we’re all fools’

Coalition members deride Defense Minister Benny Gantz after his Blue and White party boycotts coalition votes to protest holdups in its legislation.

“We were surprised by this move from Gantz, who has the support of all senior members of the coalition. This is childish behavior from someone who thinks we’re all fools,” senior coalition sources tell Ynet.

“Gantz is acting sour again and trying to undercut the coalition’s stability like a little child. Maybe he’s fantasizing about a government with Bibi again,” the source says, using former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s nickname.

Gantz signed a coalition deal with Netanyahu in May 2020 that was supposed to see Gantz serve as prime minister after 18 months. That government collapsed after it failed to pass a budget, in a move widely seen as engineered by Netanyahu to prevent Gantz taking power.