Netanyahu has dissolved Israel’s war cabinet, officials say – National

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Netanyahu has dissolved *******’s war cabinet, officials say – National

******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the influential War Cabinet tasked with steering the conflict in Gaza, ******** officials said Monday, a move that comes days after a key member of the body bolted the government over frustrations surrounding the ******** leader’s handling of the conflict.

The move was widely expected following the departure of Benny Gantz, a centrist former military chief, earlier this month. Gantz’s absence from the government makes Netanyahu more dependent on his ultranationalist allies to govern and the dissolution of the War Cabinet underlines that shift as the eight-month-long conflict in Gaza drags on.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the change with the media, said that going forward Netanyahu would hold smaller forums with some of his government members for sensitive issues surrounding the conflict. That includes his security Cabinet, where far-right governing partners who oppose cease-***** deals and have voiced support for reoccupying Gaza, are members.

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The War Cabinet was formed in the early days of the conflict, when Gantz, then an opposition party leader and Netanyahu rival, joined the coalition in a show of unity following the Oct. 7 ****** ******* on southern *******. He had demanded that a small decision-making body steer the conflict, in a bid to sideline far-right members of Netanyahu’s government.

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It was made up of three members — Gantz, Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant — and together they made important decisions throughout the course of the conflict.

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The move to scrap the War Cabinet comes as ******* faces more pivotal decisions.

******* and ****** are weighing the latest proposal for a cease-***** in exchange for the release of hostages taken by ****** during its *******. ******** troops are still bogged down in the Gaza Strip, fighting in the southern city of Rafah and against pockets of ****** resurgence elsewhere. And ********* continues unabated between ******* and the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group — with a Biden administration envoy in the region in a bid to avert a wider conflict on a second front.

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Netanyahu has played a balancing act throughout the conflict between pressures from *******’s top ally, the U.S., and the growing global opposition to the conflict and from his government partners, chief among them Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

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Both have threatened to topple the government should ******* move ahead on a cease-***** deal. The latest proposal being considered is part of the Biden administration’s most concentrated push to help wind down the conflict. For now, progress on a deal appears to remain elusive.

Critics say Netanyahu’s wartime decision-making has been influenced by the ultranationalists in his government and by his ******* to remain in power. Netanyahu denies the accusations and says he has the country’s best interests in mind.

Gantz’s departure, while not posing a direct threat to Netanyahu’s rule, rocked ******** politics at a sensitive time. The popular former military chief was seen as a statesman who boosted *******’s credibility with its international partners at a time when ******* finds itself at its most isolated. Gantz is now an opposition party leader in parliament.

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Netanyahu’s government is *******’s most religious and nationalist ever. In *******’s fractious parliamentary system, Netanyahu relies on a group of small parties to help keep his government afloat and without the support of Gantz’s party, Netanyahu is expected to be more beholden to the far-right allies.

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