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Blue and White MK says party to dissolve Knesset in September

“We will finish our immediate work and bring an alternative to Benjamin Netanyahu,” said lawmaker Michael Biton.

Israel’s Minister for Strategic Affairs Michael Biton at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 29, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Israel’s Minister for Strategic Affairs Michael Biton at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 29, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Knesset member Michael Biton said on Sunday that his National Unity Party would “exit the government soon.”

In an interview with Knesset TV, Biton said that first his party, led by Minister-without-Portfolio Benny Gantz, wants to secure the return of the remaining hostages being held by Hamas and to deal with Israel’s immediate security needs.

“We will also bring a bill to dissolve the Knesset in September,” Biton added.

“Even when we leave the government, I regret that this government has a majority with a dangerous, extremist right-wing that holds it and prevents it from making the correct decisions,” he said.

“But we will work so that elections will be in September,” he said. “We will finish our immediate work and bring an alternative to Benjamin Netanyahu.”

The posthumous recognition of the former president of Daystar Television Network comes at a time when mainstream media are highly critical of Israel.
“I want you to listen to my words carefully: One day, and it may not be far away, the Iranian people will be free. Their murderous regime will be toppled by its lies, by its corruption, by its cruelty,” the Israeli prime minister said.
“We will continue to hunt down Hamas commanders and operatives, target its sources of funding and destroy its terrorist infrastructure,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said.
Both decisions will be submitted to the High Court of Justice for review.