The covid-19 outbreak in Israel has given the negotiations between Binyamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz a sense of urgency
, Israel’s prime minister for the past 11 years, is never one to waste a crisis. In recent days he has used his televised briefings on the covid-19 pandemic to exhort the leader of the opposition, Benny Gantz, to join an emergency unity government—under Mr Netanyahu, of course. The prime minister seems undeterred by the failure of his coalition of nationalist and religious parties to win a majority in the parliamentary election on March 2nd , or by the charges of bribery and fraud that he faces.
Mr Gantz’s preference would be to form a unity government that includes Mr Netanyahu’s Likud party. “I extend my elbow,” said Mr Gantz, referring to new guidelines barring handshakes. But Mr Netanyahu has always insisted that, if the premiership were to rotate between them, he should go first. Mr Gantz and his colleagues are loth to accept this proposal as they believe Mr Netanyahu would not abide by the deal.
A more comprehensive response, involving emergency funding, will be difficult to implement without a new government or oversight committees in the Knesset. Yet on March 18th the speaker of the Knesset, Yuli Edelstein, a Likudnik, adjourned the body for five days. Mr Gantz, backed by a majority, had been trying to replace Mr Edelstein and form the committees in a way that reflected the minority status of Likud and its allies.
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