Gantz again shrugs off Netanyahu’s call for election debate

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz again turns down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s challenge to a televised debate ahead of the March 2 elections, dismissing it as “spin” and linking it to the premier’s upcoming corruption trial.

“Netanyahu has been avoiding debates for over a decade. He avoided my call for debates in the last rounds of elections. He suddenly wants one because of his court date set for March 17,” Gantz says at a press conference in Ramat Gan.

He adds: “This whole event is one big media spin.”

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