Farkash-Hacohen announces resignation from Blue and White-National Unity, in latest blow to Gantz

By Sam Sokol 24 July 2025, 1:59 pm

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Then-tourism minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen holds a press conference on encouraging tourism from abroad, in Tel Aviv, on April 27, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

MK Orit Farkash-Hacohen is leaving Benny Gantz’s Blue and White-National Unity party but will continue to coordinate with it, a spokesperson for the opposition faction announces.

“Farkash is not resigning from the Knesset,” the spokesperson states, adding that she will continue to “act in coordination” with the opposition “so as not to give the coalition another vote.”

The spokesperson adds that Gantz “thanked Farkash-Hacohen for [her] partnership and wished her success.”

Less than a month ago MKs Gadi Eisenkot and Matan Kahana left the party and the Knesset, with Eisenkot stating that he is working to build a “governing alternative.”