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Dec. 20, 2020
The coalition agreement signed by Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz in April says that on November 17, 2021, the two will rotate positions: Gantz will become prime minister and Netanyahu will take his place as alternate prime minister. This is what they agreed to, what was promised to the other partners in the coalition government and to the president and the Israeli public. It’s also what the Knesset decided.
The linkup between Netanyahu and Gantz was hard to swallow. It raised suspicions and objections, broke up the center-left camp, shattered the hopes of ending Netanyahu’s corrupt rule and raised feelings of betrayal among voters of the Labor Party and Gantz’s Kahol Lavan. Netanyahu and Gantz swore they had forged an emergency government because of the coronavirus crisis, and Netanyahu promised that there would be no tricks or shticks, that there would be a power-sharing coalition government and a rotation.