Netanyahu gets what he wants, though it is too late to help

In the final days before the Knesset dissolved (due to lack of budget), the negotiations between Kachol Lavan and Likud to come to an arrangement to keep the Knesset coalition intact had focused largely around Avi Nissenkorn, the Minister of Justice.

While other issues were on the table, according to the news reports the main impediment was Nissenkorn in the Justice Ministry. Netanyahu wanted him out, seeing him as implementing Leftist policy and preventing Netanyahu from being involved in the selection of judges, while Gantz supported his guy and said he will not remove Nissenkorn from the Justice Ministry.

Nissenkorn has announced he is leaving Kachol Lavan and will instead join the new party to be formed by Ron Huldai (currently mayor of Tel Aviv). Reports say that, in light of that decision, tonight Gantz is going to remove Nissenkorn from the Justice Ministry.

It is a little late now to save the government, but it is ironic that now that the government has fallen and elections declared, Gantz is really giving Netanyahu what he wanted that probably could have saved the government from collapse just a week ago.

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