Bnei Gantz called for unification in the center-left bloc: “This is an emergency, let’s unite”

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After the Minister of Defense and Blue and White Chairman, Bnei Gantz, heard the calls on behalf of the Leader of the Opposition, MK Yair Lapid, and the Chairman of the Israel Party and the Mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Huldai, for connections in the center-left bloc, he convened tonight (Monday) A press conference in the village of Maccabiah, in which he called on the leaders of the bloc: “Let us unite.”

Gantz members of the center-left, tonight: “Let’s unite” // Photo: From Bnei Gantz’s Facebook page

Ganz first appeared without the blue and white logo behind him, in order to emphasize how open he is to connections. “This is an emergency. He (Netanyahu, DRA) must not be allowed to dismantle us into party fragments. There is a great danger that the opportunity will pass if we remain scattered across so many factions,” he said.

The Defense Minister continued: “I call on everyone for whom Israel is important, on anyone who does not go with Bibi, to give up the ego and unite. Now – Lapid, Huldai, Boogie, Shelach, Lieberman, Horowitz, Shmuli, Zelicha. All those who really did not sit with “Bibi. Let’s meet, find the method and the way. Find what we have in common. Come tomorrow, we will enter the room. I invite you, eight in the evening, we will find solutions. Expect us all to be there.”

Defense Minister Bnei Gantz in a statement to the media, tonight // Photo: Aviad Malka

There is a future response: “Every effort will be made to lead to connections that will lead to a sane and liberal government that will change the country.”

The chairman of Yisrael Beiteinu, MK Avigdor Lieberman, published a comment after Gantz’s speech on his remarks: “We already had a chance to replace Bibi, but you chose to be a reserve prime minister. The only thing you can do now for the country is to announce that you are not running in the next Knesset. “

Ganz’s statement comes in about an hour After Ofer Shelach, a former MK who retired from Mish Atid last month to form a new party, gave himself a press release in which he called on Huldai, Nissenkorn and Labor leaders to discuss the possibility of joining. “You all know me. I have already made agreements and political action with you. I have no preconditions. We will sit, carry and give, we will reach an agreement and clean the body that an entire camp longs for. Then there could be more connections, but let’s get started. “

Shelach added that only a party that connects the center-left parties can prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from forming the government in the next Knesset: “Only such a body will address hundreds of thousands of Israelis who are currently unable to find a home. And such a body, if it rises soon, will reach a double-digit number of seats and shape the face of the next government. You, who know how big the blow may be and how big the chance is if we connect, do not hesitate. Come now. “

Earlier today, the mayor of Tel Aviv and the chairman of the Israeli party, Ron Huldai, also said in a press briefing that he was in favor of “egoless” essays.

The podium on which Minister Ganz will speak, without a background of the Blue and White Party, tonight // Photo: Daniel Roth Avnery

Participated in the preparation of the article: Yehuda Schlesinger.

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