Gantz, Netanyahu to meet Tuesday night as coalition deadline nears

19 November 2019, 1:53 pm

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Blue and White chief Benny Gantz and Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu will meet at 10 p.m. today, their parties say in a joint statement, as tomorrow night’s deadline for Gantz to form a government nears.

Netanyahu and Gantz have both voiced support for a unity government after elections in September left both short of a majority of Knesset seats together with their respective allies. Coalition talks have stalled, however, amid Likud’s insistence on negotiating as a joint bloc together with its religious partners and Blue and White’s ruling out sitting in a government with Netanyahu over the premier’s pending indictment on graft charges.