All the while, he said, he watched Mr. Netanyahu sowing division and hatred at his Sunday cabinet meetings. “You have to know something about” defense, Mr. Gabbay said, adding: “It’s not like being a minister of environmental protection.”So in May 2016, Mr. Gabbay quit. To Mr. Gabbay, the biggest problem with Mr. Netanyahu, and what will make it difficult to topple him, is his exploitation of identity politics, all too easy in Israel’s fractured society. “The mission of a prime minister is to be a prime minister of all the people in the country — not your camp, your side,” he said. And Mr. Gabbay, while insisting he would win, also concedes he would be willing to serve under Mr. Lapid.

Source: New York Times December 01, 2017 15:22 UTC