TV report: Emerging unity deal would see Lapid as foreign minister

Under an emerging unity government deal, Netanyahu would be prime minister for six months, to be replaced by Gantz, while Blue and White’s Yair Lapid would be appointed foreign minister and the party’s Gabi Ashkenazi would receive the defense portfolio, Channel 13 reports.

The treasury would remain in Likud’s corner and the party’s Yuli Edelstein would remain Knesset speaker, the report says, without citing a source.

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