Eight days left to coalition talks but unity government still not close
Coalition battle escalates into all-out war between Likud, Yisrael Beytenu.
Heads of the Blue and White party, Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid. Avigdor Liberman, Head of rightist Yisrael Beiteinu party. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting, December 2, 2018(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)ByLAHAV HARKOV, GIL HOFFMAN, TOVAH LAZAROFF