Blue & White leader Benny Gantz said on Tuesday that the "Joint List will not be part of the government that I will form."
The centrist leader's comments come as a response to allegations often sounded by right-wing figures, blaming the former IDF chief of cutting a deal to include the Joint List alliance in a future government as part of his bid to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Some on the right flank of Israeli politics consider the predominately Arab and openly anti-Zionist Joint List to be a fifth column endangering Israel's existence and Jewish identity.