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Benny Gantz sets stage for government backed by Arab parties
If Gantz gets the recommendations of at least 59 members of the Knesset, he would receive the first chance to form the government
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People walk by election campaign billboards showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside the Blue and White party leaders in Tel Aviv in April.
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz formally reached out to the leaders of the Joint List — a political alliance of the main Arab parties — on Monday, pledging to form a government “that will serve all of Israel’s...