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Benjamin Netanyahu reached an agreement with his opponent, Benny Gantz, to form an emergency government. On Wednesday, he also presented alongside his ally a war cabinet with broad prerogatives.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented his war cabinet on Wednesday October 11. On Monday, he also pleaded for an emergency government and reached out to the opposition to confront Hamas attacks, “without any precondition“An agreement was sealed on Wednesday with Benny Gantz, one of the opposition leaders. Former head of the Israeli army, he chairs the National Unity Party.
Enough to guarantee the executive a greater weight in Parliament. Within the newly created war cabinet will sit the Prime Minister, Benny Gantz and the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, who announced the siege of Gaza on Monday. “We are fighting human animals“, he declared. This cabinet offers its members the possibility of making rapid decisions, without having to consult parliamentarians – a system already deployed during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.