Miki Haimovitch to head Knesset's Internal Affairs and Environment Committee

The Blue and White party’s most senior female MK Miki Haimovitch will not be a minister in the new government.

The party says in a statement that despite chairman Benny Gantz offering Haimovitch “a number of senior ministerial roles,” she has decided to serve instead, for the first 18 months of the government, as chair of the Knesset Interior Affairs and Environmental Protection Committee.

After that Haimovich, a former news anchor and an environmental activist, “will be nominated on behalf of Blue and White for a portfolio related to her expertise, to be delivered to Blue and White in a year and a half as written in the coalition agreement.”