Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces that a former pick for IDF chief of staff, Yoav Gallant, will join the Likud party to run on its electoral list in the upcoming April elections.
The news is relayed at a joint press conference with Gallant, hours after the former Kulanu MK was sworn in an immigration minister.
Gallant, who began his military career in the elite Shayetet 13 naval commando unit, is a highly regarded military strategist and was former defense minister Ehud Barak’s choice for IDF chief of staff in 2010.
Initially approved by the government, his appointment was subsequently canceled when questions arose over his appropriation of public lands for the construction of his home in the rural village of Amikam, some 20 minutes’ drive south of Haifa.
He joined the newly created Kulanu party ahead of the 2015 elections.
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