At Sunday’s cabinet meeting, Jewish Home ministers demand answers from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over reports that he and opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog nearly formed a unity government last fall.
The report, in the daily Haaretz, carried an English-language text drafted by Netanyahu and Herzog that would have committed Israel to reduced settlement construction, explicitly welcomed a two-state solution to the conflict with the Palestinians and sought wider Arab states’ backing for such a move.
According to Channel 10, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who heads the Jewish Home party, demands to know if the report is accurate.
Netanyahu tells the ministers the leak comes as part of internal political wrangling within Herzog’s Labor party.
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, Bennett’s number two, reportedly retorts that the leaked document reached Haaretz not from Labor, but from staffers of former US secretary of state John Kerry.
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