{"id":54737,"date":"2020-04-17T12:08:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T18:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=54737"},"modified":"2020-04-17T12:08:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T18:08:06","slug":"reuven-rivlin-transferred-the-task-of-forming-a-government-to-parliament-on-thursday-ending-benny-gantzs-attempt-to-form-a-unity-coalition-with-hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/reuven-rivlin-transferred-the-task-of-forming-a-government-to-parliament-on-thursday-ending-benny-gantzs-attempt-to-form-a-unity-coalition-with-hi\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel takes another step toward 4th election as Gantz loses coalition mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>JERUSALEM (<a href=\"http:\/\/jta.org\/\">JTA<\/a>) \u2014 Israeli President Reuven Rivlin transferred the task of forming a government to parliament on Thursday, ending Benny Gantz\u2019s attempt to form a unity coalition with his rival, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54738\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Gantz-Rivlin-mandate-10.23.2019-Flash90-resize.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54738\" class=\"wp-image-54738 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Gantz-Rivlin-mandate-10.23.2019-Flash90-resize-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Gantz-Rivlin-mandate-10.23.2019-Flash90-resize-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Gantz-Rivlin-mandate-10.23.2019-Flash90-resize-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Gantz-Rivlin-mandate-10.23.2019-Flash90-resize-1024x569.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/167;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54738\" class=\"wp-image-54738 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Gantz-Rivlin-mandate-10.23.2019-Flash90-resize-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Gantz-Rivlin-mandate-10.23.2019-Flash90-resize-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Gantz-Rivlin-mandate-10.23.2019-Flash90-resize-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Gantz-Rivlin-mandate-10.23.2019-Flash90-resize-1024x569.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-54738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli president Reuven Rivlin presents Blue and White leader Benny Gantz with the mandate to form a new Israeli government at the President&#8217;s Residence in Jerusalem on Oct. 23, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel\/Flash90<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Israeli lawmakers now have three more weeks to find a solution to the country\u2019s yearlong political deadlock. If they don\u2019t by May 7, Israel will head to a fourth election.<\/p>\n<p>Gantz, head of the Blue and White party and speaker of the Knesset, had been tapped to form a coalition government after the March 2 election, Israel\u2019s third in less than a year. In the wake of the coronavirus crisis, he had been negotiating to form a coalition with Netanyahu, to expedite the country\u2019s response to the virus.<\/p>\n<p>But talks fell apart over who would get to appoint party members to head specific ministries, such as the justice department.<\/p>\n<p>Then Rivlin said that he would&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/quick-reads\/benny-gantz-will-not-be-given-extension-to-form-a-coalition-government-israels-president-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not grant Gantz<\/a>&nbsp;a two-week extension, usually a formality, to form a government.<\/p>\n<p>Gantz and Netanyahu can still form a working coalition during the next three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that the Knesset Members will be able to form a majority in such a way that a government can be formed as soon as possible, and to prevent a fourth round of elections,\u201d Rivlin said in a letter to Gantz.<\/p>\n<p>Before the COVID-19 outbreak, Gantz had originally vowed to not partner with Netanyahu. His change of heart split his Blue and White faction, which had boasted several high profile political leaders, including Yair Lapid and multiple former generals.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maariv.co.il\/news\/politics\/Article-760347\">protested<\/a>&nbsp;Gantz\u2019s decision to negotiate with Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"post-meta-info\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Israel%20takes%20another%20step%20toward%204th%20election%20as%20Gantz%20loses%20coalition%20mandate\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,27,1794],"tags":[9872,8781,8790,8795,8788,5509],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54739,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54737\/revisions\/54739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}