Israeli opposition leader threatens to quit war cabinet, calls for new elections

Tel Aviv [Israel], April 4 (ANI/TPS): Benny Gantz, a current member of Israel's emergency war cabinet, held a press conference Wednesday evening in which he called for early elections for the Knesset to be held in September.

The call came after demonstrations by opponents of the Benjamin Netanyahu government demanding new elections now turned violent in which protestors assaulted police.

He also threatened to quit the gov