Blue and White

Benny Gantz’s long political decline is reaching its final stage - opinion

Once seen as Netanyahu’s strongest rival, Benny Gantz now faces political isolation and fading public support.

|ByORI WERTMAN
MK Benny Gantz leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, earlier this year.
Eitan Ginzburg: Former Mayor of Raanana & Israel’s first openly gay mayor.

MK Eitan Ginzburg quits Blue and White in another blow to Gantz's party

The move marks another blow to Gantz’s party after a series of departures by lawmakers who are now members of the Yashar! party led by Gadi Eisenkot, once Gantz’s second in command.

|ByKESHET NEEV
MK Hili Tropper attends Blue and White faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 19, 2026.

Ex-minister Chili Tropper quits Blue and White, Gantz decries 'painful day'

Tropper said he was leaving the party because, within Blue and White, he could no longer "realize his worldview." 

|ByKESHET NEEV
Benny Gantz on June 9, 2024 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Gantz warns Bennett-Lapid alliance could harm chances of replacing government

Gantz also released a campaign video calling for a bloc representing “all of Israel,” and argued that Bennett and Lapid were focused on internal leadership battles.

|ByKESHET NEEV

Telem's Arab candidate dropped due to bribery charge

Moshe Ya’alon undaunted to run alone.

JANUARY 11, 2021ByGIL HOFFMAN, MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Moshe Ya’alon with the Telem Party team

Science Minister Izhar Shay announces resignation from government

Sources close to the minister have indicated that he will announce joining another political party in the following days.

JANUARY 8, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Izhar Shay, Blue and White party, 2015

Meet Ruth Wasserman Lande, Blue and White's new MK raised in Cape Town

"I know that I am stepping into a complicated situation politically."

JANUARY 7, 2021ByGIL HOFFMAN
Ruth Wasserman Lande, the newest Blue and White MK.

Benny Gantz's political career is not over yet - opinion

It’s clear that the person who more than anyone else is responsible for the fact that a right-wing government could not be formed is Benny Gantz

JANUARY 7, 2021ByEHUD OLMERT
ALTERNATE PRIME MINISTER Benny Gantz attends a cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem in June.

Blue and White minister Meirav Cohen joining Yesh Atid

Harvard, Oxford and South African educated candidate to replace her in Knesset.

JANUARY 5, 2021ByGIL HOFFMAN
Meirav Cohen and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, January 5, 2020

Knesset swears in first Philadelphia-born MK: Moshe Tur-Paz

Educator Moshe Tur-Paz raised by British parents

JANUARY 5, 2021ByGIL HOFFMAN
Philadelphia-born Yesh Atid MK Moshe Tur-Paz is sworn in as a Knesset member. 5 Jan, 2020.

Blue and White vanishes with same speed it appeared - opinion

Blue and White appears to be following the fate of the Democratic Movement for Change (better known by its Hebrew acronym Dash.

JANUARY 3, 2021BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
TEL AVIV Mayor Ron Huldai represents the practical social democratic values, combined with pragmatism, that served Israel well when Labor was in power. Pictured: Huldai seen at a drive-in cinema in Tel Aviv last year. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

2021 welcomes pleasant era of boredom for Israeli politics - opinion

A dull era is ahead of us, which may actually be good news, if the parties are able to feel the spirit of the public and decide to be boring.

JANUARY 3, 2021ByMOSHE KLUGHAFT
ALTERNATE PRIME Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left) with justice minister Avi Nissenkorn, in November. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Nissenkorn: I didn’t surrender to takeover attempts by a bribery defendant

At a ceremony marking the end of his tenure as justice minister, Avi Nissenkorn took parting shots at just about everyone for undermining the role of law, though focusing especially on Netanyahu.

JANUARY 3, 2021ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn, September 2020

Blue and White chances of joining next Knesset fall after mergers rejected

Benny Gantz is seen as political liability.

JANUARY 2, 2021ByGIL HOFFMAN
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz announces that he will be supporting opposition leader Yair Lapid's Knesset dispersal bill, Tuesday, December 1st, 2020.