JERUSALEM, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, an opposition leader and former defense minister announced on Wednesday in a joint statement the formation of "an emergency unity government" and a war cabinet.
The move brings Gantz's centrist party of National Unity to sit together with Netanyahu's ultranationalist-religious coalition government.
Under the agreement, the war cabinet will consist of three members: Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Gantz, who was also a former chief of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Gadi Eizenkot, a lawmaker with the National Unity, also a former IDF chief, will act as an observer.
Netanyahu agreed not to advance any bills unrelated to the ongoing conflict with Gaza's ruling faction Hamas, a seeming reference to the controversial judicial overhaul plan. ■
