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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resolved on Thursday (March 30) a dispute with his finance minister over broadcast regulation, an issue that had put a strain on the governing coalition and fed speculation of an early election.
Ahead of a meeting with Slovakia’s President Andrej Kiska in Jerusalem, Netanyahu was asked whether the crisis with Finance Minister Kahlon was resolved and he said: “I believe so”, confirming a statement issued by his office that said both men “have reached a compromise.”
The election speculation came after Netanyahu said on March 18 that he was abandoning an agreement with Kahlon, leader of the centre-right Kulanu party, on establishing a new public broadcasting authority to replace the existing one.
Under a compromise reached with Kahlon, the news division of the new broadcaster would be managed separately from the rest of the authority, said the statement from Netanyahu’s office, an arrangement that could effectively ensure that two officials — charged by some right wing politicians of leaning to the left and potentially spearheading critical coverage of the prime minister — would not oversee news coverage.
Some political commentators had accused Netanyahu of using the broadcast issue as a pretext for engineering a national vote that could delay any peace moves under new U.S. President Donald Trump and also put off the Israeli leader’s possible indictment over suspected corruption.
But members of Netanyahu’s coalition, including ministers from his own Likud party, were opposed to an early poll, ahead of a national vote that is not due until November 2019.