Sa’ar’s deal with Likud puts MK Elkin in charge of rebuilding war-ravaged south, north

New Hope party chairman Gideon Sa’ar announces the portfolios his faction will receive in the government as part of an agreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud.

Sa’ar will become foreign minister, while party MK Ze’ev Elkin will be appointed a minister in the Finance Ministry. Elkin will oversee the Tekuma Directorate, tasked with rehabilitating the Gaza border communities overrun by Hamas terrorists on October 7, and the Northern Rehabilitation Directorate. Elkin will also be part of the team formulating the plan for postwar Gaza, a party spokesperson says.

Sa’ar and Elkin will sit in the powerful security cabinet and “will regularly take part in security and policy consultations, including on the Iranian nuclear program,” the spokesman says.

MK Sharren Haskel will become deputy foreign minister, working on public diplomacy.