Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Speaker of the Knesset Benny Gantz signed on Monday evening the agreement to form the government, the most important thing of which is that "imposing Israeli sovereignty" on areas in the occupied West Bank will be starting from the first of next July, and not to amend "a law Nationalism. "
Under the agreement, the former Netanyahu alliance obtained the chairmanship of the Knesset, the chairmanship of the Finance and Economy Committees, Corona, the transportation, internal security, and finance ministries, health, interior, energy, environmental quality, and housing.
According to the information received, the Israeli government for 3 years is headed by its first half, Netanyahu, and the second half by Gantz, and it consists of 30 ministers: Gabi Ashkenazi as foreign minister, Benny Gantz as security minister, while the justice ministry is a minister from "Kahul Lavan", with the Likud enjoying the right to veto all Decision related to the Ministry of Justice.
According to Haaretz, the cabinet will be as follows: Minister of Finance, Israel Katz (Likud), Minister of Justice, Avi Nenkorn (“Kahl Lavan”), Economy Amir Peretz (Labor), Welfare Itzik Shmuli (Labor), Internal Security Mary Regev (Likud), Health Yaakov Litzman (Heturah Judaism), Education is a Yamina list if she joins, Transportation for the Likud, Interior Ministry Aryeh Deri (Shas), Speaker of the Knesset Yariv Lavin (Likud), Minister of Communications, Ya'az Hendel or Orit Farkash - Hacohen ( "Hossein to Israel").
During Netanyahu's term, Gantz will receive the title "alternative head of government" and Netanyahu does not have the right to remove him from office, to exchange titles after rotation, a new title agreed upon today.
According to the agreement, no judicial adviser to the Israeli government and the attorney general would be named without Netanyahu's approval.
"We have prevented a fourth election. We will maintain democracy. We will fight Corona. There is a national emergency government," Gantz wrote on his Twitter account, immediately upon signing.
While Netanyahu rushed to contact the coalition of right-wing parties to inform them of the agreement, with the exception of the head of the "Yamina" list, Naftali Bennett.
The agreement came after the meeting between Gantz and Netanyahu broke out on Monday morning, as the dispute over the Judges Appointment Committee continued, noting that previous reports had spoken of the two sides breaching the dispute over this committee.
The two sides reached an agreement according to which the former Netanyahu office director and Knesset member of the "Derech Arts", Zvi Hauser, would be represented on the committee from the Israeli opposition, despite his biased Likud positions.
Netanyahu waived his demand to choose the committee before forming a government.
Earlier today, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation ("Kan") quoted a source familiar with the negotiations as saying that "an agreement has been finalized and only the signature is left." The coalition will take place later this evening. "
Likud and "Kahul Lavan" said in a joint statement after signing the agreement that the government, the security cabinet and the miniature cabinet (cabinet) would be equivalent.
According to the statement, it was decided to establish a "cabinet Corona" under the joint leadership of Netanyahu and Gantz, who would be responsible for dealing with the pandemic with the participation of the relevant ministers and specialists.
The rotation is scheduled to take place in October 2021.
According to the text of the agreement, "If one of the parties decides to dissolve the Knesset or not vote for the budget, the head of the rival list will occupy the prime minister immediately", with elections to take place half a year after the Knesset is dissolved.
And it was decided that the government would be installed after the voting was passed on the necessary legislations to amend the position of the "Acting Prime Minister" and to insert the text of the rotation into the law, according to the agreed formula.
According to the agreement, the definition of government is a "national emergency government" for the first six months, and its definition will change after the expiry of this period, during which no law not related to Corona will be enacted.