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Sunday, February 24, 2019
Litzman says UTJ won’t join Gantz-Lapid government
United Torah Judaism leader Yaakov Litzman says the ultra-Orthodox party will not sit in a government that includes Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid.
“Lapid humiliated the ultra-Orthodox public, and we will not sit in a government in which he is a member,” Litzman says at the launch of UTJ’s Knesset campaign in Bnei Brak according to Hebrew media reports.
“Lapid was the worst finance minister in Israel’s history,” he adds. “He damaged both our pockets as well as our laws and looted from us.”
Last week, Yesh Atid joined with Benny Gantz’s Israel Resilience party in a bid to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the April elections. Opinion polls on Israeli TV stations have showed the new “Blue and White” alliance jumping ahead of Netanyahu’s Likud party.
The Times of Israel Community.