Eisenkot cancels talks with Likud following Netanyahu's speech
The move underscored growing friction over a unity government as Likud and Yashar advisers moved farther from a deal, sources said.
- On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the newly sworn-in 26th Knesset, prompting Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot to cancel a scheduled negotiation meeting following the speech.
- During his address, Netanyahu accused the Joint List and Ra'am parties of being "supporters of terrorism who hate Israel," intensifying tensions after reports that associate Natan Eshel had contacted Ra'am chairman Mansour Abbas.
- Naftali Bennett, former prime minister and chairman of the B'Yachad party, confronted Netanyahu over alleged Qatari advisers during the session, while Likud officials claimed the canceled meeting was a "prepackaged media stunt."
- Despite appeals from President Isaac Herzog to advance Israeli society for the better and form a national unity government, negotiations between rival blocs remain stalled as parties trade accusations.
- With few coalition options available, Netanyahu is focused on securing the next two years in power, overlapping with the remainder of U.S. President Donald Trump's term, by preventing the right-wing bloc from fracturing.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that a unity government is possible and that he will keep extending a hand, a day after Yashar chairman Gadi Eisenkot canceled a negotiation meeting with the Likud. The post 'I can't share everything I know,' Netanyahu says in vague reference to upcoming test appeared first on www.israelhayom.com.
Unity talk, scorched earth: Netanyahu’s Knesset speech blows up first Likud-Yashar meeting
One of the most popular songs in Israel in recent years claims that “he who believes does not fear.” Yet time and again, Israeli politicians walk a path where they both believe and fear. Tuesday’s swearing-in ceremony for the 26th Knesset was a case in point. On one side stood Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In...
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Yashar cancels scheduled meeting with Likud after Netanyahu’s speech
Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot canceled a meeting between his party’s negotiating team and that of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party following Netanyahu’s “divisive speech” addressing the newly sworn in 26th Knesset, Yashar said in a statement on…
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