Netanyahu, Haredi political leaders reiterate opposition to unity government

By Tal Schneider

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6 May 2021, 3:06 pm

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Tal Schneider is a Political Correspondent at The Times of Israel

Prime Minister Netanyahu meets with the leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism parties in his right-wing religious bloc.

A Likud statement says they agreed to continue to oppose the “change government” being negotiated by the right-wing Yamina and centrist Yesh Atid parties. They also call on Yamina MKs Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked “to keep their promises to the public and avoid a government with Yair Lapid, Merav Michaeli and Nitzan Horowitz.”

Absent from the meeting is MK Bezalel Smotrich, head of the far-right Religious Zionism party, who is sick.