Several current coalition partners of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly threaten to refuse to join the next coalition if Zehut party leader Moshe Feiglin is appointed finance minister, as he is expected to demand.
Zehut party leader Moshe Feiglin attends a party conference in Tel Aviv on February 28, 2017. (Flash90)
The move is likely to greatly complicate Netanyahu’s efforts to build a coalition, as polls have indicated that he is dependent on Zehut’s support.
Kulanu, headed by current finance minister Moshe Kahlon, as well as both ultra-Orthodox parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, will demand that Kahlon remain finance minister in the next government, and tell Netanyahu that it is “either Feiglin or us,” the Kan public broadcaster reports.
Shas chairman Aryeh Deri earlier today told Army Radio that if Feiglin insists on his stated demands, which include libertarian policies, such as separating church and state — to some degree — and reducing state stipends to yeshiva students, “there is no way we will sit with him.”
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