Shaked to Netanyahu: Good luck keeping coalition together

20 November 2018, 6:37 pm

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Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked expresses her lack of confidence that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be able to keep his coalition afloat with 61 seats out of the Knesset’s 120.

“The prime minister chose to govern with a narrow coalition, so I wish him the best of luck,” she says at a conference at Bar Ilan University.

Shaked says her Jewish Home party decided to remain in the coalition to prevent early elections in Israel.

“It’s not right for the country to go to elections right now,” she says. “It’s true that we are facing major challenges, and so we decided that the right way forward was to give in.”

“In life and in politics, you have to know that you don’t always get what you want,” Shaked adds.