Israeli Elections

At a meeting between the Prime Minister and the chairman of Otzma Yehudit, Netanyahu demanded a merger with Smotrich, but Ben Gvir presented in-depth polls showing that the move would harm his electoral potential. Ben Gvir suggested including the chairman of Religious Zionism on the Likud list, but Netanyahu opposed it, arguing that the move could also harm his own party.

Prime Minister: "Every time we ran united, we won; when we ran divided, we lost." Netanyahu recalled the 1992 scenario, where three right-wing parties failed to pass the electoral threshold: "We got the Oslo disaster." Ben Gvir in response: "You want Otzma Yehudit to be small so you can go for unity with Eisenkot."

According to the Yashar! party, the propaganda video titled "A Father's Life" makes illegal use of IDF soldiers and the party's ballot slip. "It is impossible to promote draft evasion at the expense of those who serve, to take pride in those who do not serve, and then use IDF soldiers as a backdrop."

Following chairman Mansour Abbas, the list will include Walid Taha, Walid al-Huashla, Iman Khatib-Yasin, and Yasser Hujeirat. If negotiations with Seglovich reach a conclusion, he is expected to be placed in the second spot. Eisenkot responded to Abbas: "A Palestinian state will not be established."

Following the Likud primaries, right-wing parties are attempting to attract disappointed voters from the right wing. Meanwhile, concern is growing within Likud regarding the move by Ofer Winter and Yoseph Haddad, and the possibility that votes will remain below the electoral threshold.

The Yashar party, led by Gadi Eisenkot, is rising not only in the polls but also in the volume of donations and guarantees. The party has so far raised 26 loan guarantees totaling 15.56 million shekels.

While the US President continues to refuse to publicly support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the upcoming elections, it turns out that one question the American President asked him caused Netanyahu to hesitate.

Ahead of the Likud primaries, Minister Ze'ev Elkin highlights the importance of the struggle for the Russian-speaking vote. According to him, while Eisenkot and Bennett have established dedicated headquarters for Russian speakers, Likud has not done so: "In my view, this is a mistake - there was a need to establish a headquarters for Russian speakers."

A sharp opinion column by Kalman Liebskind against expatriates voting in elections ignited a fire within the broadcasting corporation, after Europe correspondent Dov Gil-Har decided to respond to him in a personal and surprising manner.

That year, the Zionist Camp led in the polls and Isaac Herzog was almost celebrating, but Likud ultimately won 30 seats. A look back at Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic battle and the lessons for the next campaign.

Ben Caspit addressed the new propaganda campaign of the "Democrats," explained why he will not vote for left-wing parties, and surprised by revealing the three candidates he is currently debating between ahead of the ballot.