Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening blocked the nomination of opposition chief Isaac Herzog as the new head of the Jewish Agency regardless of overwhelming help from the company’s appointments committee.
Nine of the 10 members of the committee voted in favor of Herzog changing outgoing chairman Natan Sharansky.
But when committee members met with Netanyahu to current him with their advice, the premier admonished them for failing to fulfill together with his most popular candidate, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz of Likud, and requested them to fulfill with the minister earlier than making their closing advice.
Sources within the company advised the Ynet information web site Netanyahu’s needs could possibly be a deciding issue within the eventual nominee, who will should be authorised by the company’s board of governors when it meets subsequent week.
Sharansky is to step down as head of the Jewish Agency subsequent month, after 9 years within the place.
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz attends the weekly authorities convention on the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, October 29, 2017. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Flash90)
In addition to Herzog and Steinitz, candidates who've been floated as doable replacements for Sharansky embrace Zionist Union MK Nachman Shai; deputy diplomacy minister and former US ambassador Michael Oren; former UN ambassadors Dan Gillerman and Ron Prosor; Rivka Carmi, who's president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Ma’ale Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel.
In March, Netanayhu reportedly beneficial Yohanna Arbib-Perugia, head of the Jerusalem Foundation and a member of the chief of the Jewish Agency, for the place. However, a day later Haaretz reported that Netanyahu withdrew the nomination after she apparently rejected the supply.