JERUSALEM — After 27 years of sitting out decisions on who should lead Israel, Arab lawmakers on Sunday recommended that Benny Gantz, the centrist former army chief, get the first chance to form a government over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a watershed assertion of political power.
Benjamin "Benny" Gantz is a former Israeli military chief who believes he can unseat long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu .
His centrist Blue and White alliance came away with 35 seats in April's election, the same number as Mr Netanyahu's Likud party. Mr Gantz hopes now he can oust the prime minister at the second attempt.
The 60-year-old retired lieutenant-general is a newcomer to politics who formed Blue and White in February, promising to unite a country that had "lost its way".
Mr Gantz was born in 1959 in Kfar Ahim, a co-operative farmers' village in central Israel founded by immigrants. His father and mother, Nahum and Malka, were survivors of the Holocaust.
As a youth, Mr Gantz attended a boarding school in a youth village near Tel Aviv.
After finishing there in 1977, he enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and joined the Paratroopers Brigade. His first assignment was to help provide security for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's historic visit to Israel.
Last soldier in Lebanon
Two years later, he graduated from the IDF officer school and was made a company commander in the Paratrooper Brigade. From then on, he rose steadily through the ranks.
He has played key roles in significant military campaigns, including in May 1991 when he led the Israel Air Force's elite commando unit in the operation that saw thousands of Ethiopian Jews airlifted to Israel in only 36 hours.
Stig Östlund
Bloggarkiv
-
▼
2019
(2298)
-
▼
september
(182)
- RANKguld/silver/brons/total
- Mamman kommer från Åbo och pappan från Färila
- Ingen rubrik
- Drygt två tusen anhöriginvandrare fick ekonomisk h...
- Varning för:
- Nu kräver Skolverket att den muslimska friskolekon...
- World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 today sche...
- World Championsships 2019. Women. 100 m.
- Sandi Morris
- Världens mest utbredda idrottsgren. Här en arena ...
- Apropå spel-eländet
- Ingen rubrik
- Judy Garland Is Back! (For Some of Us, She Never W...
- La Liga 27-29 september
- TIMETABLE BY DAY IAAF WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIP...
- The court was wrong Boris Johnson tells MPs – BBC ...
- "Caruso"
- Ingen rubrik
- "Julio Iglesias" i stor hatt
- Whistle-Blower’s Complaint Says White House Tried ...
- En av Europas största politiker har avlidit
- Ingen rubrik
- Ingen rubrik
- SVT/Novus
- Det politiska ledarskapet är otillräckligt
- Brottslig handling
- Impeachment Fight Is On; Trump Says ‘It’s a Joke’
- EM kval. Friends Arena
- Good Night
- Landshövding (f.d.) Thomas Carlzon
- Glad (wow) musik i en tokig värld
- klimatförändringarna
- Ingen rubrik
- Höst igen
- Kristdemokraternas ekonomiskpolitiska talesperson ...
- Demokraterna inleder ett riksrättsförfarande mot U...
- Demokraternas talman i representanthuset Nancy Pel...
- Nancy Pelosi Announces Formal Impeachment Inquiry ...
- ”Sverige måste söka sanningen om Estonia”
- Climate change
- At Climate Summit, Few New Promises and Silence Fr...
- Good Night
- Leaders, at U.N. Climate Talks, Get Their Chance t...
- Ingen rubrik
- Greta Thunberg: "You have stolen my dreams and my ...
- Ingen rubrik
- Ingen rubrik
- Ingen rubrik
- Ingen rubrik
- Ingen rubrik
- Donald Trump vs. the United States of America Just...
- Wifi
- Premier League
- La Liga
- Ligue 1
- Ingen rubrik
- Nancy Pelosi
- Sverige bör söka en förklaring till Estoniaolyckan...
- Ingen rubrik
- Information med anledning av Thomas Cooks konku...
- Benny Gantz
- Good Night
- Ingen vill ta ansvar för de 23 000 tunnor med kvic...
- Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston II
- Estonia
- Antalet föräldrar som läser högt för sina barn har...
- Boktips
- Ingen rubrik
- Ingen rubrik
- I en debattartikel i Dagens Industri skriver Kinas...
- Thomas Cook
- Ingen rubrik
- Ingen rubrik
- They were octogenarians shopping at a Texas Walmar...
- MIG-29
- F-22 Raptor
- Ingen rubrik
- Ligue 1
- La Liga - De fem främsta i tabellen efter 4 match...
- Scientists Identify Neurons That Help the Brain Fo...
- What’s Next for Israel? Probably not “peace,” or a...
- Anxious about their future on a hotter planet, ang...
- Axén är styrelseordförande i Allra, det företag s...
- Gunnar Axén
- Undersköterskor som tycker att högavlönade ska bet...
- Regeringens första kulturbudget ger frikostigt til...
- Ingen rubrik
- Sverigs statsminister - De svaga gruppernas "hopp"...
- Jerusalem Post 09.15 A.M. At 9.15 a.m., 2,826,333...
- Windows 10
- Få koll på hyresmarknaden
- Friidrotts-VM avgörs 27 september till 6 oktober i...
- Brottning 77 kg-klassen
- Messi
- Skenande kostnader för migranter i Bengtsfors - vi...
- Ingen rubrik
- Boris utbuad
- Eric Climpton född den 30 mars 1945
-
▼
september
(182)