(IsraelNN.com) The shape of the government being formed by Israel’s Prime Minister-designate, Binyamin Netanyahu, is still not known. Two weeks before the initial deadline for presenting a government coalition, most of the political action is going on behind closed doors between Netanyahu, Yisrael Beiteinu party chief Avigdor Lieberman and Sephardic hareidi party Shas.
According to some reports, Netanyahu plans to appoint a leading businessman as “minister in the Finance Ministry,” while he himself will hold the title of Finance Minister and supervise policy making. Netanyahu was Finance Minister three times: twice for relatively short periods when he was Prime Minister and for 2.5 years under then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Netanyahu reportedly wants to be Finance Minister in order to make it easier to push the government budget through the Knesset.
