Reports: Gantz will only be speaker temporarily, post to later go back to Likud

Media reports indicate Gantz will only be Knesset speaker for a brief time.

Once a unity government is formed, he will be appointed foreign minister while the speakership will return to Likud, the reports say. Then, in September 2021, according to the reportedly imminent unity deal, Gantz would take over from Netanyahu as prime minister.

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz gives a televised statement in Ramat Gan on March 7 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

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