Meretz leader: Billions will flow to the settlements

Elazar Stern (Hatnua), a former IDF manpower chief, who is Orthodox, rises to take issue with the ultra-Orthodox claims that they were “boycotted” in the coalition negotiations.

Plenty of debate ensues between Stern at the podium, and Litzman, now back in his seat — each accusing the other of delegitimization.

Meretz leader Zahava Gal-on is up next, protesting that “billions” will continue to flow to the settlements. Lapid, by partnering Bennett, will preside over the “rehabilitation” of the settlements. The Defense Ministry, the ministries of Housing, Agriculture, Economy and Trade, the Knesset Finance Committee, are all in the hands of pro-settlement camp, she says. “We wanted a government of peace,” she says. But Netanyahu will be presenting a right-wing, extremist, pro-settlement government “with just a few sane voices.”