MK Yitzchak Herzog
MK Yitzchak HerzogFlash 90

On Sunday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised Moshe Kahlon the finance portfolio, but Netanyahu's major opponent, Labor leader Yitzhak Herzog, took the news in stride. 

Dismissing Netanyahu's offer to the Kulanu Chairman as desperate, Herzog took the opportunity to expose more of the Prime Minister's "false promises."

"As Bibi drops in the polls, he increases in lies," Herzog attacked the Prime Minister on his Facebook page Sunday.

"Two days before elections in 2013, he promised Kahlon control of the Israel Land Administration and a minute after that forgot him and turned his back on housing prices. Two days before 2015 elections, he panicked again and promised Kahlon the finance portfolio - but no one believes him."

"Bibi is the same Bibi but we have wised up to his false promises. We are fed up with made up stories, intimidation, manipulation, and spin," Herzog concluded. 

Kahlon likewise rejected Netanyahu's offer, implicitly rebuking the Prime Minister's latest "false" promise and for not caring about the Israeli public. 

"Netanyahu already promised me control of the Israel Land Administration and the Finance Ministry in the past, but he did not keep his word," Kahlon wrote on his personal Facebook page.

While the maneuver could very well be an attempt by Netanyahu to regain votes from disappointed Likudniks who plan to vote for Kahlon, the Prime Minister himself admitted he could not form a government without the former Likud minister.