Elections to the 24th Knesset: Meretz Speaker Nitzan Horowitz announced that his party will support Yair Lapid for prime minister.
In recent days, the Meretz campaign has focused on the slogan: “Without Meretz, the bloc has no Netanyahu 61 opponents,” and vice versa – “If there is no Meretz, Netanyahu has 61”. The aim of the campaign is to get voters to vote on the basis of a “just not Netanyahu” strategy. According to Horowitz, Meretz’s retirement from the race would be “the wet dream of the far right.”
Horowitz attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who he said was “bringing Kahanists into the Knesset” and clarified following the storm he created after his remarks about the investigation against Israel in The Hague: “I oppose prosecuting soldiers abroad. I said that the government was responsible for this, and I wanted it to change its policy. “
Meanwhile, Meretz increased its activity in the Arab sector and launched the “It’s time for an Arab interior minister” campaign. The campaign is intended to convey an unequivocal message that discrimination and violence in the sector can not be addressed in the form of extinguishing fires and making promises, but in institutionalized and planned treatment for the next decade when the appointment of an Arab interior minister will be the highlight of the program.