Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the country’s War Cabinet on Monday, a week after his longtime political rival, Benny Gantz, left the wartime unity government.
A spokesman for the prime minister told the press that there was “no more need for an extra branch of government.”
PM Netanyahu told the security cabinet last night that the war cabinet has been officially disbanded.
A PMO official tells me that since the war cabinet was part of Benny Gantz’s demand to join the war coalition, it is no longer relevant since he left last week. >>
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