Blue and White Knesset members urged to join Likud

Blue and White Knesset members Zvi Hauser and Yoaz Hendel have been encouraged to break from their party and join the Likud. The two have registered their reluctance to join a minority government backed by the anti-Zionist Joint List Arab party after the leaders of Blue and White have been courting the anti-Zionists, some of whom are terrorist sympathizers. Mayor of Ma'aleh Adumim and Likud member Benny Kashriel has implored the two to break ranks in a letter siting "the historic opportunity to extend Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria thanks to a sympathetic President Trump."