Netanyahu to appoint education, transportation portfolios to Peretz and Smotrich — report

16 June 2019, 8:58 pm

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to appoint Rafi Peretz and Bezalel Smotrich as education and transportation ministers respectively, according to Channel 13 news.

According to the report, the leaders of the nationalist Union of Right-Wing Parties will also be appointed to the high-level security cabinet during the meeting at Netanyahu’s office tomorrow.

Union of Right-Wing Parties chairman Rafi Peretz (R) and National Union faction chair Bezalel Smotrich at the party’s 2019 election campaign launch, March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The URWP has been aggressively lobbying for ministerial posts since Netanyahu fired education and diaspora affairs minister Naftali Bennett and justice minister Ayelet Shaked, in a reshuffle of his interim government, ahead of the September elections.