Netanyahu Targets New Rivals, Urges Likud to Boost Vote Turnout
Translated & summarized from Maariv by baba
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed Likud members to increase voter turnout efforts and attack the parties of Ofer Winter and Yohaz Hendel-Zelicha, whom he accuses of costing the right-wing bloc three seats. An internal Likud poll shows the party with 31 seats. The targeted parties criticized Netanyahu's campaign tactics, calling them "fake" and misleading.
The story in 5 lines · by baba
- Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Likud members to boost voter turnout and attack rival parties.
- Netanyahu claims Ofer Winter and Yohaz Hendel-Zelicha's parties are costing the right-wing bloc three seats.
- An internal Likud poll projects the party will secure 31 Knesset seats.
- The targeted parties accused Netanyahu of running a "fake" and misleading campaign.
- Netanyahu emphasized the importance of mobilizing voters in Likud strongholds on election day.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed Likud party members to intensify efforts to bring voters to the polls and to attack the parties of Ofer Winter and Yohaz Hendel-Zelicha. Netanyahu claims these parties are siphoning off three Knesset seats from the right-wing bloc. He urged party members to mobilize in Likud strongholds on election day, ensure no votes are lost, and increase attacks on the two parties, which he believes are diminishing the right-wing bloc's electoral strength.
A Likud internal poll presented at a meeting indicated the party would receive 31 seats. In response to accusations, the party stated, "We thought we had reached rock bottom with the campaign about Yosef Haddad, about Lali Derai, and other members of the only new party in Israel that did not participate in the events of October 7th, now comes an echo of another fake by the Prime Minister who knows that "Amcha Yisrael" will stop the surrender to sectors unequivocally. A misleading publication that has already been changed on the site where it was published, but the Prime Minister didn't even bother to check."
