Blue & White Chairman MK Benny Gantz explains the reasons for disagreements over the unity government.

"After the last meeting with the President, and at his request, the chairman of the Blue & White negotiating team was appointed and the chairman of the negotiating team on behalf of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was appointed. To our disappointment, MK Yariv Levin insisted that he was negotiating as the head of the right-wing block and not the Likud.

"This composition does not allow, in terms of the subject matter, negotiations for the establishment of a broad government headed by me for all Israeli citizens. In particular, this composition does not allow a government to represent those who together elected the two major parties, which will determine what the next government's basic lines will be. I do not agree to sit in the government in which the Prime Minister is facing an indictment.