Posted on 03/27/2015 6:58:20 AM PDT by Star Traveler
Moshe Kahlon, chairman of Kulanu, on Thursday ordered his team not to attend the meeting with Likud’s team in protest against media reports that the Knesset Finance Committee and the Planning Administration – two bodies that Kahlon is seeking for Kulanu to promote a series of reforms – are to be given to United Torah Judaism and Shas. Sources in Kulanu accused Likud of “handing out positions at the expense of the tools needed to bring down housing prices and the cost of living, even before the negotiating teams have met.”
Likud, seemingly unfazed by Kahlon’s muscle-flexing said: “How did Kahlon turn a debate over the chairmanship of the Finance Committee, which should be held around the negotiating table, into a boycott of the discussions and into his PR person telling the media that this was corruption of the talks?”
Habayit Hayehudi chairman Economy Minister Naftali Bennett warned yesterday that Likud was working to establish a government with Zionist Union and that under those circumstances his faction would head for the opposition. Sources in Likud said Thursday that among the three portfolios Bennett wanted – defense, education and religious affairs — he would receive only education, and two other ministries that have not yet been decided.
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Remember that backstory from Wedneaday that Obama and Jarrett are “meddling” with Bibi’s potential coalition partners, urging them not to join him.
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