Sources close to opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog reported overnight Tuesday that unity talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had stalled over disagreements regarding the peace talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA).

The officials accused Netanyahu of being “scared of the extremist elements in the Jewish Home party,” to which they referred as the “Smotriches” – a play on the name of Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich.


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