Kahlon urges Netanyahu, Herzog to band together

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon reportedly says he has been urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition chief Isaac Herzog to band together in a unity coalition.

“There’s no doubt that the government’s second year will be much more difficult than the first,” he says at a closed meeting in Tel Aviv, according to a report in Haaretz. “The coalition’s position is very difficult” because it numbers only 61 members, a razor-thin majority, Kahlon adds. “Let’s be honest — over the last two months we haven’t been bringing to the Knesset [floor] any controversial bills.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon during vote on the state budget for 2015-2016, November 18, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon during a vote on the state budget for 2015-2016, November 18, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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