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‘Won’t take part in any spin,’ says Liberman’s party after Gantz urges temporary gov’t
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Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on July 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
MK Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party responds to Blue and White-National Unity chief Benny Gantz’s call to form a government together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid.
“Yisrael Beytenu calls for all the hostages to be returned now, without conditions,” the party says in a statement. “The only government that we will be part of is a wall-to-wall Zionist government, and we won’t take part in any spin.”
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