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Israel's Gantz presides over collapse of Blue and White

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, the only real alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, now collapses politically, taking down with him the whole center-left camp.
Israeli Defence Minister and alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz arrives at the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) in Jerusalem on December 2, 2020. - Gantz said his party will vote for an opposition bill to dissolve parliament, a move that could force a fourth election in under two years. (Photo by Alex KOLOMIENSKY / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ALEX KOLOMIENSKY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Will Defense Minister and Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz decide to run in the upcoming March elections or will he step down? This thorny question has occupied the entire political system, and Gantz himself, in recent days.

The man who until seven months ago headed the second-largest party and represented the hopes of the Israeli center to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now finds himself in a desperate political and public conundrum as he watches his party disintegrate in front of his eyes.

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