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SPECIAL NOTICE
Yom Hashoah begins tonight.
Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, begins this evening at sundown. OneIsrael suggests that wherever you are you might stand for a minute of silence to remember the more than six million Jews who were murdered during this darkest moment in our people’s history.
The News on the Israeli Street
7 pm Monday: There are now 13,654 confirmed cases of Corona in Israel. 114 people are on ventilators. 174 Israelis have died. 3,872 have recovered. Check the breaking news ticker above for further updates.
TODAY’S BLOG:
Continuous Breaking News Today:
Netanyahu and Gantz Sign “National Unity Government” Agreement
UPDATE 9:00 pm:
The details about the new government are coming fast and furious even as Israel’s national and immensely sad Holocaust Memorial Service is taking place.
If you can read Hebrew, the full agreement is here.
*Benjamin Netanyahu will remain prime minster for the next 18 months at which time he will be replaced by Benny Gantz. During Netanyahu’s tenure as prime minister, Gantz will be “Deputy Prime Minister.” If the Israel Supreme Court denies Netanyahu the right to form a government, a new election will take place.
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*The Knesset speaker will be from the Likud Party.
*There will be an astonishing 36 ministers and 16 deputy ministers running the government. Some of the ministry allocations are as follows:
The right wing block of 58 members will receive the following ministries: Interior, Energy, Environment, Education, Housing, Transportation, Homeland Security, and the Foreign ministry (the foreign ministry for the first half of the government period).
The Gantz party of 17 members will receive: Defense, Finance, Foreign 1/2, Justice, Culture and Sports, Agriculture, Social Equality, Communication, Tourism, and Economics and Welfare.
*Dependent on completion of mapping and American approval, a Knesset vote on sovereignty over parts of Area C of Judea and Samaria will take place on July 1.
UPDATE 7:00 pm:
PM Netanyahu and Benny Gantz have reached an agreement to form an “emergency national unity government.” We will have to wait to read the details before we know what it means.
The deal has just been signed, one hour before the beginning of Yom Hashoah.
Today’s blog will be be continuously updated.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.