Who needs unity? The collapse of the Third Bloc parties – What began as a promising attempt to build a centrist-right alternative has turned into a graveyard of new parties, as Erdan and Hendel fade, Shaked stays out and Gantz is left fighting for political survival | ynetglobal

The three parties of the “Third Bloc”, the group of small right-leaning and centrist political factions in Israel trying to push for a broad unity government which launched with great fanfare at the start of the election campaign, are reaching the final stretch before candidate lists are submitted with a resounding political failure. It sounded promising, looked intriguing, and familiar, experienced politicians took the reins, recruited high-profile names and promised to offer the public exactly what it was supposedly looking for: an alternative that did not clearly belong to either political camp. But when the moment of truth arrived, it became clear there were almost no buyers for that product.