Far-right Maoz threatens to quit coalition if he doesn’t get promised powers

Noam’s sole MK Avi Maoz says he will leave the coalition if the government does not create an office for national Jewish identity that was agreed he would head under the coalition agreement.

The MK says that if the coalition does not meet his demand before passing the state budget by the end of May, he will quit the coalition and “work from the Knesset for the benefit of the public.”

Maoz recently quit his post as a deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, complaining that the coalition did not intend to create various offices and transfer powers promised to him in sweeping coalition agreements.

If Maoz quits, the government would still have a majority with 63 seats in the 120-seat Knesset.

The far-right MK, known for his homophobic, misogynist, and anti-Jewish pluralist positions, says his eyes are still on an external educational programming unit, which he controversially wants to pull out from the Education Ministry.