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Then-opposition leader Isaac Herzog greets Nancy Pelosi in Tel Aviv on March 26, 2018. (Isaac Herzog s Twitter feed via JTA)
WASHINGTON (JTA) Three weeks after American voters elected Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi found a friendly ear in another politician mourning a loss.
During the first weekend of December 2016, Pelosi was a guest at the Saban Forum, an annual convening of Israeli and American political and national security leaders.
Then the Democratic minority leader in the US House of Representatives, Pelosi was seated at a table in the ballroom of the stately Willard Hotel next to Isaac Herzog, effectively her counterpart then as the leader of the Labor Party and the Israeli opposition.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Alternate Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
1. Can we rebuild it? With only a few days to go before a deadline that will set early elections in motion, press reports are revolving around possible efforts to avoid the snap poll.
A Channel 13 report claims “dramatic” progress in talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s Blue and White.
A source, evidently from Blue and White, tells the network that the centrist party had managed to secure a commitment from Likud to ensure the rotation agreement that will allow Gantz to replace Netanyahu as premier, in addition to keeping Avi Nissenkorn on as justice minister.