FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein attend a ceremony marking the annual Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main rival, Benny Gantz, was elected parliamentary speaker on Thursday in a surprise manoeuvre that could herald a unity government keeping the veteran leader in power.
With the support of Netanyahu's right-wing Likud and allied parties, former general Gantz left many of his own political allies fuming over the smoothing of a path to partnership with a prime minister under criminal indictment.
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