Likud not yet ruling out unity with Herzog

TEL AVIV — “I don’t believe in a unity government,” future Likud MK Yoav Kish tells The Times of Israel. “I hope Moshe Kahlon will come home and then we’ll have a coalition.”

Deputy Minister Ofir Akunis, however, is not so quick to dismiss the possibility of a joint government with the Zionist Union.

“I can neither exclude nor confirm it,” he tells reporters when asked about this scenario. “We will have to wait for the final result. The votes of the soldiers still need to be counted. I hope they will benefit us, the national camp, and when Benjamin Netanyahu receives the mandate [from President Reuven Rivlin] to build a coalition — then we will start the coalition negotiations.”

— Raphael Ahren