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Meretz chief: Coalition’s collapse would be ‘prize’ to Netanyahu, Ben Gvir
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz leads a Meretz faction meeting at the Knesset on February 28, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Meretz chief Nitzan Horowitz issues his first public response to the resignation of the left-wing party’s MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi from the coalition.
“The dissolution of the coalition would be a prize to [Benjamin] Netanyahu and [Itamar] Ben Gvir and [cause] great damage to all of society — Jews and Arabs,” Horowitz, who is health minister, writes on Twitter.
He also pledges Meretz’s commitment to shoring up the government, which now holds a minority of seats in the Knesset.
“The disputes within the government will be resolved internally,” Horowitz says.
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