President Issac Herzog informed Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday that he is extending his mandate to form a government by only ten more days.
Netanyahu on Thursday evening had submitted a request to Herzog for the 14-day extension permitted by law, saying “negotiations are in full swing and much progress has been made – however, according to the rate of progress so far, I will require all the days of extension that you have the power to give me according to the law in order to form the government.”
Herzog wrote a response letter on Friday, granting Netanyahu only ten more days to form a government, until Wednesday, December 21, 2022. He did not specify why he did not grant the full 14-day extension.
Netanyahu signed coalition deals with the Religious Zionist Party, Otzma Yehudit, and Noam parties but has yet to sign deals with UTJ and Shas.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Does UTJ want a lefty government? They aren’t getting a theocracy.
If UJT & Shas don’t settle & Heaven Forbid another election becomes necessary, they are both going to be walloped loosing many votes which shall simply go to Right Wing parties irrespective of what any Rabbi calls for voting religious parties.
Furthermore, no-one should count on left wing parties again missing threshold just by a few thousand votes.
I seems that Likud are trying to take advantage of them rather than giving in to essential demands.
netanyahu is a left-winger, the RZ parties arent frum enough, and the other ones are “chareidim”…
אוי לנו
where are all the real yidden like in the days of old?