Ben Caspit talks this week with Science and Technology Minister Yizhar Shai of the Blue and White party on the current budget crisis, which is shaking Israeli politics. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz traded shouts at the weekly coronavirus-focused cabinet meeting on Sunday. For Shai, the country’s nine million citizens are all against new elections, with one exception only: citizen Benjamin Netanyahu, who follows his personal interests.
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