FILE PHOTO: Leader of Blue and White party, Benny Gantz looks on after voting at a polling station in Israel's national election in Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel March 2, 2020. REUTERS/Nir Elias/File PhotoTEL AVIV: Israel appeared headed for a unity government on Friday after opposition leader Benny Gantz moved towards an agreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, disappointing voters who had hoped to bring down the right-wing premier.
It also drew an angry response from some among the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who turned out to support Gantz's coalition in three elections in the past year. Some commentators accused the former general of caving in to Netanyahu. At least one member of Gantz's own Israel Resilience party came out against him on Friday - a lawmaker from Israel's Arab Druze minority.
Indeed, US President Donald Trump called his close ally Netanyahu on Friday to congratulate him"on the fact that he would form a government under his premiership," Netanyahu said on his Arabic-language Twitter account.
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