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After President Reuven Rivlin tasked opposition leader Benny Gantz on Oct. 23 with forming Israel’s next government, and after the chair of the Blue and White party initiated a call to Arab Joint List Chair Ayman Odeh, the two met Oct. 31 to discuss possible cooperation between their two Knesset factions.
Blue and White’s official position is to strive for a liberal national unity government with the Likud party, as Gantz made clear upon accepting the mandate from Rivlin, and as his party colleague and coalition negotiator Knesset member Ofer Shelah explained when interviewed for a previous Al-Monitor article.
