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From the Liveblog of
Monday, February 11, 2019
From the Liveblog of
Monday, February 11, 2019
Litzman says UTJ won’t join Gantz-Lapid government
United Torah Judaism chairman Ya’akov Litzman says that he will not join a government that contains a joint party made up of Benny Gantz’s Israel Resilience and Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party.
Speaking at the B’Sheva newspaper’s conference in Jerusalem, the deputy health minister says that he could not be coalition partners with Lapid “because he looted and damaged the ultra-Orthodox community” when he was finance minister from 2013 to 2015.
Asked if he would extend his boycott to a united slate of Yesh Atid and Israel Resilience, Litzman says, “I will not sit in a joint government of Gantz and Lapid, and I say that unequivocally.”
— Raoul Wootliff
