Likud MK Danny Danon could pay a price for his recent moves against Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, sources close to Netanyahu said
Thursday.
The coalition agreement Netanyahu signed with Kadima head Shaul
Mofaz grants his party the chairmanship of both the Knesset Economic Affairs
Committee and the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, as well as an unnamed
committee.
There were initially rumors that the committee given to Kadima
would be Constitution, Law and Justice, or Education, Culture and Sports. But
the deal with Kadima does not permit harming other coalition
partners.
The Law Committee is led by Yisrael Beytenu’s David Rotem. The
Education Committee is set to be transferred soon to Independence faction head
Einat Wilf.
The Likud has two committees it could give to Kadima: The
Committee on the Status of Women led by MK Tzipi Hotovely and Danon’s
Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee.
While Hotovely
voted in favor of the coalition deal with Kadima, Danon upset Netanyahu by
voting against it. Danon also embarrassed Netanyahu by running against him for
the chairmanship of the Likud convention, for which the prime minister hoped to
run unopposed.
“I will serve immigrants to Israel in any post I hold,”
Danon said. “I have proven I have influence wherever I am.”
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