Likud and Yashar Name Teams for Sunday Coalition Talks

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Likud and Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party named their representatives on November 15 for coalition negotiations scheduled for Sunday. Likud will send faction chairman MK Ofir Katz and attorney Michael Rabilo, while Yoav Horowitz and MK Hili Tropper will represent Yashar. Horowitz heads Yashar’s negotiating team and previously served as chief of staff and acting director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office. The party’s wider team also includes attorney Dr. Yoram Turbowicz, another former PMO chief of staff; Yael Wolf Barel, who heads its policy and content work; and attorney Ronen Aviani. Yashar invited Likud to include MK Elisha Medan in the discussions. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had called on Saturday evening for unity negotiations without preconditions. Eisenkot responded that the teams’ Sunday meeting had already been arranged and described Netanyahu’s public invitation as a political maneuver. The two leaders had also held a security briefing on November 12. A joint statement issued afterward said Netanyahu and his military secretary, Maj. Gen. Guy Markizeno, had briefed Eisenkot on Israel’s security and diplomatic challenges. The statement said: “The parties agreed to proceed with mutual updates as the need arises.”