Bezalel Smotrich
Smotrich, Feiglin sign on joint run ahead of October elections, call for broad right wing alliance
The alliance comes ahead of the deadline for submitting party lists next week and as a group of small right-wing parties continues to fail to pass the electoral threshold in recent polling.
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Winter privately met with Netanyahu despite pledging independent run, N12 reports
According to the report, Netanyahu offered Winter a reserved slot on the Likud list for the upcoming election, alongside additional reserved positions on the party’s slate, which Winter rejected.
Winter, Smotrich cross electoral threshold at expense of Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Kan poll shows
The Kan poll shows Likud down one seat to 21 mandates from the previous survey and down three seats since the beginning of the month. Otzma Yehudit also declined, falling to seven seats.
Ben-Gvir blasts Netanyahu over reported Smotrich-Feiglin merger talks, unity appeal
Smotrich largely stayed away from the back-and-forth, writing in a post on Twitter/X that “the time for unity and responsibility is now.”
Smotrich enters joint ticket talks with former Likud MK Feiglin as Likud slams Ben-Gvir
Simultaneously, tensions grew between National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and the Likud party after he announced that Otzma Yehudit would not run together with the Religious Zionist Party.
Netanyahu calls for Otzma Yehudit and RZP to unite, Ben-Gvir signals his opposition
"Only a large Otzma Yehudit, together with Smotrich and Ofer Winter running together, only in this way can a fully right-wing government be formed," Ben-Gvir said.
'We lost 10 seats': Netanyahu struggles to find campaign strategy as Likud slips in polls - report
The conversations held by the prime minister indicated that he is skeptical of polls that show favorable results for him and believes that the situation is worse than those surveys suggest.
Matan Kahana: Ofer Winter firmly in Netanyahu bloc, Gantz and Troper should unite or quit race
Yashar! party official Matan Kahana told 103FM on Wednesday that Ofer Winter would strengthen Netanyahu's bloc, while condemning MK Zvi Sukkot's destruction of a West Bank memorial as "a disgrace."
Mladenov tells UNSC that IDF, Hamas are causing Gaza ceasefire to unravel
Nikolay Mladenov, in a briefing to the UN, claimed that Hamas agreed to disarm and hand over authority in Gaza to a new body.
A new Right? Winter’s People of Israel could secure six seats, at expense of Smotrich's RZP - poll
Although the Religious Zionism Party also received six seats, it would fail to cross the threshold to enter Knesset, according to the Wendesday poll.
Sledgehammer sovereignty: Zvi Sukkot’s vigilante stunt hurts Israeli security, law - editorial
Sukkot could have demanded its removal through the IDF, the government, or the courts. What he could not do was appoint himself judge, enforcement officer, and demolition crew.
