A researcher from the Kohelet Forum, who represented the government in the High Court, told ynet that Prime Minister Netanyahu has announced an additional reserved Knesset slot. The report provides no further details on the timing or nature of the slot.
A researcher from the Kohelet Forum, who served as the government's representative in the High Court, told ynet on Tuesday afternoon that Prime Minister Netanyahu has announced an additional reserved Knesset slot. The report provides no further details on the timing or nature of the slot. This new disclosure comes after a day of internal Likud maneuvering over the allocation of the party's reserved list positions — an issue that dominated party politics on Monday and into Tuesday.
The development follows a series of moves on Monday evening, when the Likud party court gave Netanyahu a two-hour ultimatum to publish his list of reserved slots, warning of a secret ballot if he failed. Netanyahu initially defied the ultimatum, threatening to petition the district court, before committing to publish the identities of the candidates by Tuesday morning. Political commentator Amit Segal (N12) reported earlier Monday that Netanyahu held six reserved slots to assign by Tuesday morning — a figure that now appears to have grown with the reported addition of another slot.
Reserved Knesset slots — positions on the party list reserved by the party leader for loyalists or coalition partners — have long been a central tool in Netanyahu's coalition management. As The Zioneer reported in August, Netanyahu held up to ten reserved slots in earlier phases of the list formation, and the issue has been a recurring source of internal friction within Likud.
The details of the additional slot remain unclear: it is not known which faction or individual it is intended for, whether the announcement was made during the Tuesday morning list publication, or if it represents a change from the earlier six-slot figure. The ynet report, based on a single source, has not been independently corroborated at this hour.
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