On video: Smotritz upon entering the meeting with Netanyahu in the Knesset (Yaki Adamker)
Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu and Religious Zionist Chairman Bezalel Smotrich are meeting this evening (Tuesday) in the Knesset, in an attempt to resolve the impasse in the negotiations to form the government. This, after no significant progress has been made in the talks over the past day.
Netanyahu is expected to meet later tonight Chairman of Otzma Yehudit Itamar Ben Gabir, who said earlier in the Knesset plenum that "without being able to invest in the periphery, we will not enter the government."
This is in reference to the demand that his party receive the Negev and Galilee case, which Likud assigns to Shas.
At the same time as the unresolved dispute between Shas chairman Aryeh Deri and Smotrich regarding the treasury case - there is also an impasse with Torah Judaism which demands to receive another case, such as the Ministry of Equality Social, but so far no agreements.
Netanyahu and Smotrich at the swearing in of the Knesset (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Yesterday, Deri expressed his willingness to give up the finance portfolio in order to resolve the crisis in the coalition negotiations. The Shas chairman asked to receive the interior, transportation and health portfolios, in addition to the religions portfolio and the Negev and Galilee portfolio and the position of another minister in the government. According to the proposal, Deri himself will serve As the Minister of the Interior and Transportation and will also serve as Deputy Prime Minister, the rest of the portfolios - health, religions, and the Negev Galilee and the Diaspora - will be divided among the party members.
Currently, Likud assigns to religious Zionism the portfolios of finance, immigration and absorption, and another minister in the Ministry of Defense with powers over settlements in Judea and Samaria. Smotritz He also demands the education portfolio, but Likud wants to keep it in the party. Likud assigns the internal security, agriculture and heritage portfolios to Otzma Yehudit.
Likud assigns to Torah Judaism the portfolios of housing, the Jerusalem Ministry, which will be split from the Heritage Ministry, the Ministry of Social Equality and the chairmanship of the Finance Committee.
The party is outraged at the division of the cases, which is indicative of religious Zionism and the Shas. Party officials said that the division "lacks any proportion compared to the proposals we received.
We are talking about matters of substance and they are dividing the spoils in the meantime."
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