Gideon's gambit
Israel’s moderate right wakes up, with Sa’ar breaking off from Gantz’s party
Sa’ar demands membership in war cabinet; polling over the last year consistently shows a center-right party could make it into the Knesset
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Gideon Sa'ar attends a campaign event for the new center-right "National Unity Party", or Hamahane Hamamlachti in Hebrew, in the Druze village of Hurfeish in northern Israel on October 11, 2022.
As new polling reveals that Israel’s voters are increasingly seeking a more pragmatic center-right choice for prime minister, politicians on the right are jockeying for position.
In the boldest move yet, security cabinet Minister Gideon Sa’ar has broken off...