Ultra-Orthodox leader vows to stick with Netanyahu, even at cost of 4th vote

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, the leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, vows to only join a government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud.

“We are going with Netanyahu at any cost, even fourth elections,” Deri tells Channel 12.

He says he “definitely” won’t join a coalition formed by Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz even if the latter manages to form a government.

Shas party chairman and Minister of Interior Affairs Aryeh Deri (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony marking the six year anniversary of death of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, at the Knesset, November 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

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