Benny Gantz is the leader of Israel’s opposition National Unity party and a member of the government’s war cabinet. On May 18, he gave the leader of the cabinet, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an ultimatum: Come up with a plan for the end of the war in Gaza by June 8.
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Who is Benny Gantz, Israeli official who could upend Gaza war cabinet?
With no plan announced by Friday, June 7, and Gantz set to make public remarks Saturday evening, many will be watching closely to see if he carries out his threat and resigns.
Gantz had been considered a more liberal counterweight to Netanyahu. If he resigns, it will increase the pressure on Netanyahu to bring the war to a conclusion, but some analysts argue that the embattled Israeli prime minister could lean more on his far-right government allies for support.
Here’s what to know about Gantz and the impact his resignation may have on Israel and its government.
Gantz is Netanyahu’s main political rival
Gantz, 64, leads the centrist National Unity party and is a former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, a position he assumed in 2011. He was born in southern Israel to Holocaust survivors, and joined the military at age 18, working his way up to the top post.
After leaving the military in 2015, he worked in business before turning to politics in 2018. He has enjoyed popularity among Israeli voters since then, known for being a steady, evenhanded antithesis to a sharp and sometimes turbulent Netanyahu.
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After Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, Netanyahu formed an emergency war cabinet, a sort of pop-up government to oversee the war in Gaza. The war cabinet is an unlikely grouping of bitter rivals: Its three voting members are Netanyahu, Gantz and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who is a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party but a political foe of the prime minister’s.
Gantz is pushing Netanyahu to wrap up the war
With the war in Gaza dragging on, Gantz called on Netanyahu last month to put forward a postwar plan that includes the return of the dozens of hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza, as well as a road map to demilitarize the Gaza Strip and identify non-Hamas leaders to govern the enclave.
Gantz said if a plan did not materialize by June 8 — Saturday — he would resign from the war cabinet. Putting the ball in Netanyahu’s court, Gantz said at the time, addressing the prime minister: “The choice is in your hands.”
Since Gantz issued his ultimatum, no such plan has come to fruition. President Biden last week announced what he said was an Israeli proposal that could facilitate the return of hostages and a winding down of the war, but the proposal did not fully address what would happen the “day after” the war, as Israeli and U.S. leaders have referred to concerns about what comes after Israel stops fighting there.
Gantz’s office said in a statement that he will give remarks at 8:40 p.m. Saturday local time, shortly after the end of Shabbat.
Gantz’s resignation could push Netanyahu further to the right
Gantz has acted as a counterbalance to Netanyahu, who draws most of his support from Israel’s right wing. Netanyahu has distanced himself from the cease-fire proposal announced by Biden, bending to pressure from far-right members of his coalition who have said they will pull their support for him if he moves forward with the deal.
If Gantz resigns, it could push Netanyahu to rely even more heavily on Israel’s right-wing, said Shalom Lipner, a nonresident senior fellow for Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council.
Gantz’s resignation would “put Netanyahu at the complete mercy of his right-wing and religious fellow travelers who — in the absence of Gantz’s fig leaf — will try to steer policy in a direction that is anathema to the Biden administration and puts Israel’s essential ties with the United States at risk,” Lipner said.
The potential resignation and subsequent political shake-up would come at a fraught time, with cease-fire negotiations dragging on, burgeoning calls from Israelis pushing Netanyahu to facilitate the return of the hostages and the Biden administration growing increasingly frustrated with the war.
Ruby Mellen and Steve Hendrix contributed to this report.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ore. (KPTV) – The Washington County Sheriff’s Office released video of deputies using a drone to track down a man wanted for damaging a car.
On Saturday, May 30, a 911 caller reported a man damaging a car outside their home on Southwest 179th Avenue in Aloha. The sheriff’s office said it was reported the suspect, 21-year-old Santos Paulino Castro-Ramirez, was punching the car.
Deputies used a drone to follow the suspect as he ran toward Southwest Barcelona Lane. The sheriff’s office said Castro-Ramirez then entered a white SUV that did not belong to him on SW Barcelona.
Deputies arrested Castro-Ramirez. He was booked into the Washington County Jail for first-degree burglary and attempt to commit a crime – second-degree theft.
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Beirut, Lebanon – On Tuesday, representatives from Lebanon and Israel met at the US Department of State in Washington, DC – the first session of a two-day round of negotiations that Lebanese negotiators hope will end an invasion of their country.
The negotiations, which started at 9am local time (13:00 GMT), come as Israel’s invasion of Lebanon pushes deeper than at any point since the year 2000 and as Hezbollah and Israel continue to trade attacks. Israel has killed 3,468 people in Lebanon since March 2, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health.
With the war raging on, what do Lebanon and Israel have to discuss and will the talks lead to an end of the Israeli assault?
Here’s everything you need to know.
What will Israel and Lebanon discuss?
Similar to past meetings, the two sides are ostensibly looking to come to some kind of deal following fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, with strong doubts it will be achieved.
Lebanon’s government is still pushing for a total ceasefire. However, as talks started, Israel was striking various parts of southern Lebanon. Lebanon is also trying to get Israel to withdraw from Lebanese territory in the south, so that more than 1.2 million displaced people can return home, and so the state can resume finding a way to disarm Hezbollah and rebuild areas devastated by Israeli attacks.
Israel is meanwhile looking to get assurances that Lebanon will disarm Hezbollah, a prospect analysts say Israel knows is complicated by the continuation of its military operations and occupation of swaths of southern Lebanon. Instead, Israel appears to be trying to fuel sectarian tensions inside Lebanon, leading to chaos and internal strife.
What has happened so far?
An initial meeting took place in April between Israel and Lebanon’s ambassadors to the United States. A second round took place in May with a larger delegation on both sides.
On Friday, a meeting took place with Lebanese and Israeli military representatives, while Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese group, is not involved in the meetings.
Israel claimed the two sides found common ground in that they both wanted to see Hezbollah disarmed. Some Israeli officials suggested there may soon be trade agreements and an exchange of tourists between the two countries. Lebanon, however, said it preferred to find a deal closer to the 1949 armistice agreement between the two countries.
In the last meeting, Beirut reportedly outlined the damage done by Israeli attacks since the 2024 ceasefire agreement and presented detailed maps showing homes destroyed or razed by Israel.
Is there a chance for a ceasefire?
That remains to be seen, but for now, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country’s military would continue attacking Lebanon.
On Monday, Netanyahu announced that attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs would resume, despite a ceasefire. Apart from two targeted attacks, Israel has not struck the suburbs, known as Dahiyeh, since April.
Iran, which has attempted to include Lebanon in a wider ceasefire between themselves, on one side, and Israel and the US on the other, then intervened by threatening to attack northern Israel.
US President Donald Trump reportedly intervened to stop Israel’s attacks. He announced another ceasefire, after his previous announcement of one between Israel and Lebanon on April 16, after claiming he had gotten the approval of Netanyahu and spoken to Hezbollah.
“There will be no troops going to Beirut, and any troops that are on their way have already been turned back,” Trump announced on his social media platform, Truth Social.
But attacks from Israel and Hezbollah are continuing.
How do Lebanese people feel about the talks?
Not everyone is on the same page.
Some Lebanese support the talks and say they are the only option the state, which has little leverage, has. Among those who believe direct talks are the best way forward are Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.
“There is no option other than negotiation,” Aoun said in a statement on Tuesday.
Others, however, oppose direct talks. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and his allies, Hezbollah, have said indirect talks are preferred and that negotiations cannot be conducted while attacks are ongoing.
How are Iran and the US connected?
Israel and the US attacked Iran on February 28, killing the country’s longtime leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran is Hezbollah’s primary benefactor, and two days after Khamenei’s assassination, Hezbollah fired six rockets towards Israel on 2 March.
Hezbollah’s response brought a huge response from Israel, who have crossed the Litani River – the supposed buzzer zone in southern Lebanon it had created – towards the Zahrani River.
Despite a 2024 ceasefire, Israel had never stopped attacking Lebanon, while Hezbollah had only responded once in December 2024.
Iran has attempted to include Lebanon in the ceasefire deal it has with the United States and Israel, who say this theatre is not part of the agreement.
Although Trump has now announced a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel twice, the invasion of southern Lebanon continues.
Are there other actors involved?
Gulf states have also intervened. Saudi Arabia has been working behind the scenes to get Lebanon’s leadership – Aoun, Salam and Berri – on the same page. Meanwhile, analysts say Saudi Arabia and Qatar engaged the Trump administration to stop an escalation in Lebanon.
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