Facing criticism over the numerous ministerial portfolios he currently holds, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells his cabinet ministers he will fulfill a promise to appoint one of them as immigration minister by tonight.
“I have to announce the minister of immigration and absorption by midnight, and I will do so,” he tells ministers during the weekly cabinet meeting, according to a coalition source, saying that a cabinet vote on the appointment will take place by telephone.
Netanyahu, who inherited the ministry from Yisrael Beytenu’s Sofa Landver when her party quit the government in November, is not obliged by law to appoint someone else, but promised his ministers earlier this month that he would do so by today.
He also tells them that he will keep another promise to appoint a foreign minister by next month, after holding the position since the formation of his government in 2015.
— Raoul Wootliff
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