Coalition talks can lead to the strangest relationships and at this early stage of negotiations, one can only wonder what partnerships will develop in the 20th Knesset.
Yahadut Hatorah MK Yaakov Litzman on Monday 3 Nissan met with Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett in the latter’s Jerusalem office. Prior to that meeting, Bennett met with PM Netanyahu is his Jerusalem office. In addition, meetings took place between Yariv Levin and Ze’ev Elkin of Likud with Shas party leader Aryeh Deri. The Likud representatives also met with Yahadut Hatorah MKs Litzman, Moshe Gafne and Meir Porush.
On Wednesday 5 Nissan President Reuven Rivlin is expected to give Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu the presidential mandate and only then will coalition talks begin officially. The prime minister will have 28 days to assemble his coalition and present it to the president.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The Gov’t Coalition Programme (Program for those in the US)ought to develop a plan towards the diminishing the growing socioeconomic gap
1)Blowing open the monopolies (and taking on the tycoons and Cartels that dominate so much of the economy,would get the economic engines moving. It is undoubtedly also precarious,making mortal enemies out of some of the most predominant ‘families’ in the country )!
2)Revenue flowing from the offshore oilfields,if managed adroitly for the public good, could potentially be a massive boon for all!
On a Security Front”
Dr Kedar’s 8 Emirates Plan if feasible ought to be attempted
Gaza is already one tribal Emirate
The West Bank ,consisting of 7 leading Clans/Tribes, could somehow divided also..
so the question of the hour is this
whos going to capitulate on the criminal sanctions in the draft law
is litzman and the crew going to sell their constituents short or not?
While there are some difference in perspective, Litzman and Bennett have far more in common than most of the other groups.
This is Israeli politics. People make outrageous attacks one day and buddy-buddy the next.
About Time: You know the phrase, “the rich get richer?” That’s because they have their assets that most earn. You can’t bridge the socio-economic gap between producers and non-producers (non-producers from an economical standpoint).
The only thing you can do if confiscate from the producers, which take away their incentives to produce and then you are left with a Soviet Union type economy where nobody does much.