Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is trying to shore up his wartime coalition by offering deals to opposition parties to join, the Ynet news site reports, with Likud issuing a denial.
The report, citing unnamed senior political sources says Netanyahu’s aides have in recent days offered Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman a spot in the narrow war cabinet directing the war against Hamas, but demanded that he publicly commit not to leave the coalition once the war is over.
It says Opposition Leader Yair Lapid has also been offered a war cabinet slot if his Yesh Atid party joins, but only if Lapid pledges to not talk about elections.
The report says both Liberman and Lapid rejected the offers.
In response to the report, Likud casts it as “baseless lies” aims at “causing the crumbling of the unity government during wartime.”
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