Arab parties extend a hand to try to topple Netanyahu but challenges remain
- Arab-Led parties won 19 seats combined, giving them significant influence in coalition talks and potentially enabling an opposition government.
- Joint List leader Yousef Jabareen urged opposition parties to work with Arab parties to remove Netanyahu, while some opposition members rejected that partnership.
- United Torah Judaism declined to recommend any candidate for prime minister, while President Isaac Herzog prepared to decide who would first try to form a government.
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Allied with Likud since 1996, Unified Judaism of the Torah announced on Thursday 5 November that it would not recommend the outgoing Prime Minister, discontented with the threat that religious students face of having to do their military service.
An ultra-Orthodox party allied for three decades to Benyamin Netanyahu refused on Thursday to support the outgoing Prime Minister who aspires to form the next Israeli government, a disavowal that strengthens his main rival Gadi Eisenkot.
Netanyahu’s position weakens as ultra-Orthodox party withholds support
By Maayan Lubell and Alexander Cornwell JERUSALEM, Nov 5 (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu’s position in the post-election battle to stay on as Israel’s prime minister weakened on Thursday after an ultra-Orthodox Jewish party withheld support for any nominee and an Arab-led party endorsed his main opponent. Israel’s president was due to meet Netanyahu and his chief political rival Gadi Eisenkot to decide which of the two men to pick to form a gove…
On Thursday he received a delegation from the Jewish United Torah Party (JUT), which is part of Netanyahu's outgoing government coalition and had already integrated his first cabinet in 1996.
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