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Blue and White (Hebrew: כָּחוֹל לָבָן, Kahol Lavan) was a centrist [2] and liberal Zionist [4] [5] political alliance in Israel. It was established by the Israel Resilience Party , Yesh Atid and Telem to run in the April 2019 Knesset election , [ 6 ] in hopes of defeating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu .
Blue and White Israel Resilience Party (Hebrew: כחול לבן חוסן לישראל, romanized: Kahol Lavan Hosen LeYisrael, lit. 'Blue and White Resilience for Israel') [ 7 ] is a centrist , liberal Zionist political party in Israel founded in December 2018 by Benny Gantz , former Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces .
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Gantz and Sa'ar announced an alliance between their two parties on 10 July, [6] which was initially called Blue and White The New Hope. [7] The alliance was joined by former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot and former Yamina MK Matan Kahana on 14 August, at which point it was renamed the National Unity Party. [8]
In the April 2019 election Gantz's Blue and White alliance platform included introducing prime ministerial term limits, barring indicted politicians from serving in the Knesset, amending the nation-state law to include Israeli minorities, limiting the power of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel over marriages, investing in early education, expanding ...
Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel remains “as committed as ever” to the war with Hamas, as he addressed the nation on Saturday after it emerged that Israeli hostages were mistakenly shot dead by ...
The community is close-knit; residents told CNN they eat meals together and share everything, including their salaries, which go into a communal treasury and are redistributed equally among all ...
The extended period of political deadlock that led up to the election was the result of four inconclusive elections (April 2019, September 2019, 2020, and 2021).In April and September 2019, neither incumbent Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, nor leader of the main opposition party Blue and White, Benny Gantz, was able to muster a 61-seat governing majority, leading to fresh elections.