In an explicit recognition of impotence, the leader who has driven the helm of Israel over the past decade has thrown in the towel. The acting Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu , resigned on Monday from forming a government, three days before the deadline granted by President Reuven Rivlin expired. The inconclusive results of the legislative of September 17 have resulted in a new political blockade, which threatens to lead to another electoral repetition. If the centrist leader Benny Gantz , whom Rivlin is preparing to move the commission in the next few hours, fails to form a coalition cabinet at the end of another four weeks, the Israelis may be forced to vote for the third time to their deputies in just one year. "I have worked tirelessly to establish a broad-spectrum Unity Government, as the people wanted." A cariacontecido Netanyahu recognized in the social networks his inability to close a pact as soon as the Jewish autumn festivities ended, which have semi-paralyzed political activity for three weeks. The prime minister blamed the center-left opposition leader for "rejecting again and again attempts to open a negotiating table to avoid new elections." The main obstacle in the understanding between the Likud and Blue and White has been to determine which of the two leaders - Natanyahu or Gantz - should occupy firstly the head of government on a rotating basis. The prime minister needs to open the power shift. His lawyers appeared at the beginning of the month before the Israeli attorney general at a hearing prior to a possible indictment for three cases of fraud and bribery investigated by the police. Yair Lapid, former finance minister and chief political partner of former General Gantz, lashed out at Netanyahu for "once again failing citizens." "Azul y Blanco is determined to form a progressive-based coalition government," the co-founder of the centrist alliance announced. But neither the right-wing bloc, headed by the Likud of Netanyahu, nor the center-left, led by the Blue and White Gantz alliance, managed to reach the majority — fixed in 61 votes in the Kneset (Parliament, of 120 seats) —in the last legislative, summoned in repetition of the elections held in April. The 55 deputies that the Likud adds (32 seats in the final count) along with its two ultra-Orthodox partners (16) and the extreme right (7) exceed the 54 that Blue and White accumulates (33 parliamentarians), plus the support of Labor (6), from the pacifist left (5) and from 10 of the 13 members of the Arab Joint List, who have been willing to support the former head of the Army. Governance, however, remains dependent on the eight deputies of Israel Our House, a conservative lay movement led by former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman. He defends an Executive of national unity, but he has not inclined to either of the two blocks, since he refuses to agree with both the ultra-Orthodox and the Arabs. Netanyahu, the prime minister who has ruled in Israel for the longest time - 13 years, the last 10 in a row - failed to revalidate in September at the polls the parliamentary majority with whom he led the last legislature (2015-2019) the most conservative in the history of the Jewish state. The coalition of the great right broke down at the end of last year after Lieberman's departure, opposed to the prime minister's containment strategy in the Gaza Strip and confronted the ultra-religious for their privileges over the secular majority of Israel. https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/10/21/actualidad/1571679760_268103.html