Likud denies unity deal with Zionist Union reached

The Likud party denies that it reached a deal with the Zionist Union to include the center-left party in the coalition.

Meanwhile, the divide within the Zionist Union widens, with MK Mickey Rosenthal slamming Herzog for selling out the party “at liquidation [prices].”

“Even if the negotiations fail and the Labor party doesn’t join Bibi’s government, Herzog has already caused damage with the talks,” he writes on Twitter. “The legitimacy he gave Netanyahu’s government has undermined, to a large degree, our ability to criticize it in the future.”

Zionist Union MK Ksenia Svetlova writes on Twitter that the party won’t serve as a “fig leaf in this extremist government.”