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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 3, 2021.
Kan 11 News on Monday morning cited senior Likud figures who said Netanyahu had given up on the possibility of persuading Religious Zionism chairman Bezalel Smotrich to join a government with the help of abstentions of Mansour Abbas’s party Ra’am. The idea was that a Netanyahu-led government with only 59 members (including Smotrich’s 6 and Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett’s 7) would survive a no-confidence vote because the opposition would be 4 votes shy of a majority. However, by now Netanyahu has become convinced that Smotrich had no intention of changing his mind.
Maariv reported on Monday on an internal survey that was ordered recently by Religious Zionism, asking party supporters whether they would prefer to form a government that leans on Ra’am’s abstentions or go to a fifth election. Slightly more than 50% of respondents said they would prefer the Ra’am option over new elections.
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