Inside Likud Coalition Talks

Likud Won't Veto Golan, Report Says

Likud negotiators reportedly told Gadi Eisenkot's and Naftali Bennett's teams they rule out no one, and asked them not to disqualify any party in Likud's bloc.

Eliana Fleming

NOV 15, 2026 19:32

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Likud Tells Eisenkot and Bennett It Will Not Veto Yair Golan, Report Says

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Likud negotiators have told representatives of Gadi Eisenkot and Naftali Bennett that they are not vetoing anyone in the political arena, including Democrats chairman MK Yair Golan, according to details emerging from coalition talks held on Sunday.

The message was delivered during a negotiating session between Likud's team and representatives of Eisenkot, who chairs the Yashar! party, and Bennett, who heads the Beyachad party. Political correspondent Amir Ettinger reported the account. According to the report, Likud's negotiators also asked Eisenkot's and Bennett's teams to refrain, for their part, from disqualifying any of the parties that make up the Likud-led bloc during the coalition talks.

The report comes as various options for forming a broad unity government are being weighed across the political system.

Earlier on Sunday, Golan addressed the contacts between Likud, Yashar! and Beyachad. He flatly ruled out serving in a government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud, and called on the leaders of the so-called "change bloc," the camp of parties opposed to Netanyahu, to consider cooperating with the Arab parties.

Other parties in the change bloc took a different line. Figures in parties such as Yisrael Beytenu rejected both sitting with Netanyahu and relying on the Arab factions. At the same time, the feasibility of negotiating with the chareidi parties was being explored as an alternative route to forming a government.

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