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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 375

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Foreign Minister Eli Cohen (L) and Energy Minister Israel Katz. (Collage/AP)
December 28, 2023, 9:34 pm
Cabinet set to vote Sunday on replacing Eli Cohen with Israel Katz as FM
Per internal Likud agreement, foreign minister will swap roles with energy minister; Cohen says rotation is ‘strange’ during a war, but respects it
By Michael Horovitz
Leading candidates in the March 2020 national elections. Clockwise from top left: Itamar Ben Gvir (Otzma Yehudit); Bezalel Smotrich, Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett (Yamina); Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu); Yaakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism); Aryeh Deri (Shas); Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud); Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid (Blue and White); Amir Peretz, Orly Levy-Abekasis and Nitzan Horowitz (Labor-Gesher-Meretz); and Ahmad Tibi and Ayman Odeh (Joint List) (Flash 90)
November 1, 2021, 11:08 pm
Poll predicts political deadlock if elections held, Joint List as kingmaker
Survey sees surge for Likud and Labor, while New Hope would fall under electoral threshold; blocs would be tied, with 56 seats each
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid attend a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on September12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 29, 2021, 10:44 am
Lapid dismisses ‘background noise’ after PM quoted predicting coalition collapse
Foreign Minister says in a Facebook post that ‘leaks, slanders, and attempts to make us quarrel’ will not shift government from its goals
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speak at the Knesset, on September 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 28, 2021, 10:44 pm
Bennett quoted predicting government likely to collapse before Lapid becomes PM
‘I estimate that the rotation will not happen,’ TV cites premier as saying during past month; his office appears to confirm comment, but insists he’ll honor power-sharing deal
By ToI Staff
Yamina leader and PM-designate Naftali Bennett speaks in a Channel 12 interview, June 3, 2021 (Channel 12 screenshot)
June 4, 2021, 12:36 am
Bennett: ‘I told my kids their father will be the most hated person in Israel’
PM-designate defends deal with Lapid: ‘My core vow was to get Israel out of the chaos’; retracts charge that Ra’am’s Abbas is ‘terror supporter,’ calls him honest, brave
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Likud candidate Gideon Sa'ar as he arrives for a Likud faction meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 26, 2021, 11:42 pm
Netanyahu said willing to let Sa’ar be PM first in latest rotation deal proposal
Likud officials reportedly believe New Hope chair may agree to arrangement since he has only promised not to sit ‘under’ the incumbent premier
By ToI Staff
Election campaign posters showing Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz next to the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv. February 1, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
February 28, 2021, 1:49 pm
Benny Gantz won’t quit the election race. Is that for Israel’s sake, or his own?
A mocked and detested Blue and White leader says he’s in it ‘to the end’ so he can rein in Netanyahu’s interim government. In fact, he can do that from outside the Knesset
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Left photo: Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at the Likud party's election rally in Ramat Gan on February 29, 2020; Right photo: Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, holds a press conference in Jerusalem on February 26, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 10, 2021, 10:59 pm
Netanyahu says far-right Ben Gvir won’t be in cabinet, will be part of coalition
Drawing distinction, PM indicates Kahane disciple won’t be given a ministerial post, but ‘plainly’ will be a coalition member; also says he won’t share premiership with anyone else
By Raoul Wootliff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, April 30, 2020 (screen capture via Knesset website)
April 30, 2020, 5:22 pm
Legislation cementing Netanyahu-Gantz power-sharing deal passes first vote
Proposal is part of massive legislative bid to anchor unity government deal in law, which is being challenged in the High Court of Justice
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz at a memorial ceremony marking 24 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, in the Knesset, November 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 23, 2020, 8:10 pm
Bill to anchor Netanyahu-Gantz premiership rotation gets preliminary okay
Knesset committee expected to be formed to prepare legislation for 3 more readings before May 7; only 31% of Israelis believe PM will vacate seat voluntarily in 18 months
By ToI Staff
Avigdor Liberman, center, visits the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron on January 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
August 7, 2019, 5:24 pm
Spinning heads: Could Liberman really become PM under a rotation deal?
With no clear solution to an anticipated post-election coalition deadlock, the Yisrael Beytenu chief makes an audacious pitch to move from kingmaker to king
By Raoul Wootliff
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