“The next four weeks are critical. Mofaz does not want to quit, but the clock is ticking. Unless a solution is found, Kadima, feeling betrayed, will quit at the beginning of August, whether Mofaz wants to or not.

Yesterday Netanyahu spoke to Mofaz on the phone. “Let’s find a solution together,” he said. Mofaz asked him not to do anything before discussing the committee’s report tomorrow.

Shortly afterward, at Kadima’s faction meeting, its MKs and Mofaz were astonished to see on the their smartphones that Netanyahu had disbanded the Plesner committee. Humiliated and furious, Mofaz gave Netanyahu an ultimatum: adopt the committee’s conclusions or we’ll quit.”

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