Blue and White

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered opposition leader Benny Gantz a “national unity” government — one in which the two leading parties agree to govern together.

Benjamin Netanyahu became Israel’s longest-serving prime minister on Friday, and he is favored to win the next elections in September. But the Trump administration is concerned that his political future may not be secure.

Israel’s leading opposition party, Blue and White, has hired American political strategist Joel Benenson, who has previously worked  for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, in its effort to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Because of Avigdor Liberman’s personal vendetta against Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli public has been denied their right to a government.

The New York Times had declared the election a “setback” for Netanyahu, based on exit polls that showed Likud losing by a substantial margin to the opposition,