Yamina rages at Netanyahu for giving health portfolio to Edelstein

12 May 2020, 7:49 pm

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Yamina is fuming at Prime Minister Netanyahu after Likud MK Yuli Edelstein accepted his offer to be health minister in the next government, which party leader Naftali Bennett was lobbying for.

“Netanyahu slammed the door on our entry to the government,” a Yamina source is quoted saying in a statement from the party. “He looked for the perfect way to humiliate Yamina and its voters and succeeded in this.”

The source adds: “This is a calculated move by Netanyahu to destroy the alliance with religious Zionism. Netanyahu’s betrayal of his biggest supporters signals the beginning of his end in politics.”