Gone quiet · last update Jun 17, 2024 / Israel

Israel's wartime unity government and Gantz's break with Netanyahu

Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026

After Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, opposition leader Benny Gantz joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an emergency wartime government. Their partnership ended in June 2024 when Gantz resigned, accusing Netanyahu of mismanaging the war and failing to plan for Gaza's future. Netanyahu dissolved the war cabinet just over a week later.[1][2][3]

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Coverage over time

Share of tracked outlets · monthly average of weekly shares (UTC)

Oct 2023: average weekly share 3% (left 1%, center 1%, right 1%), from 4 of 4 weeksNov 2023: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksDec 2023: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksJan 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksFeb 2024: average weekly share 2% (left under 1%, center 1%, right under 1%), from 4 of 4 weeksMar 2024: average weekly share 1% (left under 1%, center under 1%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksApr 2024: average weekly share under 1% (left under 1%, center under 1%, right under 1%), from 5 of 5 weeksMay 2024: average weekly share 3% (left 1%, center 1%, right 1%), from 4 of 4 weeksJun 2024: average weekly share 11% (left 3%, center 5%, right 3%), from 4 of 4 weeksJul 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksAug 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksSep 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksOct 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksNov 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksDec 2024: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksJan 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksFeb 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksMar 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksApr 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksMay 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksJun 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksJul 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksAug 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksSep 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksOct 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksNov 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksDec 2025: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksJan 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksFeb 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksMar 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksApr 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksMay 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksJun 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksJul 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksAug 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 5 of 5 weeksSep 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksOct 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 4 of 4 weeksNov 2026: average weekly share 0% (left 0%, center 0%, right 0%), from 2 of 2 weeks, so far

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Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. Over more than two years each bar is a month: the average of that month's weekly shares, so the shape stays readable. The weekly table below keeps every week. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 5 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.

Weekly counts, outlets and reports (8 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)LeftCenterRightOf trackedShareReceipts
Jun 17, 202416221250 of 22223%
Jun 10, 202476417 of 2477%
Jun 3, 2024814931 of 22814%
May 13, 2024711725 of 21612%
Apr 1, 20241124 of 2642%
Mar 4, 202455010 of 2544%
Feb 26, 202459317 of 2567%
Oct 9, 2023811524 of 23710%

Latest coverage

The newest reporting in this story's record.

  1. Jun 16, 2024 · first reported · Headline from NBC New York

    Netanyahu dissolves influential war Cabinet after key partner bolted from government

Background

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and political rival Benny Gantz formed a wartime cabinet in October 2023 to oversee the fight against Hamas.[1][2] By March 2024, the partnership was under strain: an Israeli official said Gantz's trip to Washington had angered Netanyahu.[4] In April, Gantz called for elections in September.[5]

The dispute sharpened over plans for Gaza. In May, Gantz threatened to leave unless the government adopted a new plan for the war and its aftermath.[6] He resigned in June, accusing Netanyahu of mismanaging the war effort and failing to provide a plan for postwar Gaza.[2] Just over a week later, Netanyahu disbanded the war cabinet.[3]

Supporting stories (6)
  1. As strikes devastate Gaza, Israel forms unity government to oversee war sparked by Hamas attack
  2. Benny Gantz, Israeli War Cabinet Minister, Resigns
  3. Netanyahu dissolves influential war Cabinet after key partner bolted from government
  4. Netanyahu Rival Visits US, Signals Wider Cracks in Israel’s Wartime Leadership
  5. A member of Benjamin Netanyahu's war Cabinet calls for elections in Israel
  6. Member of Israel’s War Cabinet says he’ll quit the government June 8 unless there’s a new war plan

The full record

Each date is when an update was first reported.

All 6 recorded updates

June 2024

  1. Netanyahu dissolves influential war Cabinet after key partner bolted from governmentHeadline from NBC Los Angeles · 53 outlets
  2. Benny Gantz, Israeli War Cabinet Minister, ResignsHeadline from Time · 49 outlets

March 2024

  1. Netanyahu Rival Visits US, Signals Wider Cracks in Israel’s Wartime LeadershipHeadline from Voice of America · 25 outlets

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