Benny Gantz's upcoming resignation brings down the curtain on another interesting chapter in Israeli politics | Efrain Ganor
Benny Gantz announced his withdrawal from the race for the next Knesset. Efrain Ganor's column analyzes Gantz's political career, highlighting his mistakes: dismantling Blue and White, joining Netanyahu's government, and another joining of his government at the height of the crisis. The author describes Gantz as a naive and strategy-less leader.
Benny Gantz announced his withdrawal from the race for the next Knesset, thus ending another chapter in Israeli politics. Efrain Ganor's column reviews Gantz's political career, focusing on his key mistakes: dismantling Blue and White in May 2020 and joining Netanyahu's unity government, whose rotation promise was broken; and later, another joining of Netanyahu's government at the height of public pressure, with the author claiming that most of the public saw this government as having brought disaster. Gantz is described as a zigzagging, strategy-less, and naive leader, who acted with good intentions but was perceived as weak. The author notes that Gantz clung to the idea of uniting all parties, but eventually realized he was alone in the utopian reality he tried to create.