Hundreds turned out in Tel Aviv to voice their outrage at a coalition deal agreed on by Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival, Benny Gantz, saying it might let the embattled prime minister, who faces a corruption trial, off the hook.
Around 2,000 protesters filled Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Saturday evening in the second such mass action against the ‘unity government’ in a week. Envisioned by the deal between Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party and Gantz’s centrist-liberal Blue and White that the two struck on Monday, the so-called unity government is set to bring an end to a year-long political impasse, brought on by two inconclusive elections.
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