Kahlon has coalition-talks strategy set out

Kulanu leader Moshe Kahlon might be wiser to seek any other portfolio aside from the Finance Ministry – the place where many have gone but few have returned, politically speaking. And yet throughout the campaign Kahlon insisted that this is the ministry he wants.

Channel 2 reports that Kahlon, however, learned from the mistakes of former finance minister Yair Lapid, and is going to take a multi-pronged approach to increase his chances of success:

Kahlon, the TV station reports, will hold negotiations with Netanyahu separately from other parties, and ask for the finance portfolio for himself; that the role of head of the Knesset’s powerful Finance Committee be a Kulanu man (or woman); and that the party be given a significant position in the Housing Ministry – if not the minister, then at least control of the Israel Lands Authority or the Planning Authority.