Netanyahu offers to appoint Bennett as minister; he turns down offer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to immediately appoint Naftali Bennett a minister in his caretaker government and grant him entry to the high-level security cabinet, reports say.

Bennett, of Ayelet Shaked’s New Right party, turns down the offer.

Netanyahu fired Bennett and Shaked from their cabinet posts in June, ahead of the September elections.

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