The chairman of the right-wing party, Naftali Bennett, is expected to announce tonight (Wednesday) that in the upcoming elections he will run with the aim of turning the right-wing party into power and him, the prime minister of Israel. Bennett previously served under Benjamin Netanyahu as defense minister and education minister.
In his opening remarks, Bennett said, “I swore to myself that when my people find themselves in a crisis again, this time I will be in a position where I can make an impact. This year, we are in a shaky crisis, all the things we take for granted.
Bennett went on to say: “Citizens are paying for the failure of the closures and government policy. The closure is the solution for the weak. I ask the prime minister and the government, in a crisis of once in a century you could not put interests aside and work for the people of Israel.” “I saw people in pain because they suddenly discovered that there is no leadership, no one to talk to upstairs.”
“Netanyahu is crowned with rights, but in the moment of truth when we needed him most of all he simply was not. We must thank him for years of action and we must move forward. This is not the time for more parties to say who is not, instead of saying what is yes and where to go. “That is why I am still here tonight and announce that I am running for the position of Prime Minister of Israel to bring about change. To bring about a leadership that sees its citizens and not itself.”
Bennett criticized the prime minister’s remarks
“The Shankim government will be tasked, it will focus on taking over the corona, rehabilitating the livelihood and uniting the people. I will invite to the government all the parties in favor of a Jewish and democratic state of Israel, which are willing to put aside disputes for a moment,” Bennett said. , But for the past eight years “I have taken care of your livelihood, the future of your children and your safety.”
The Likud party responded to Naftali Bennett’s remarks from the evening, saying: “While Bennett gives a confused and troublesome speech on television, Prime Minister Netanyahu leads the Corona cabinet to the world’s rapid vaccination campaign and determined closures, which will bring Israel out of the Corona for the first time in the world.” “Closures with countless more dead than Israel. Only Prime Minister Netanyahu’s management brought Israel to first place in the world in vaccines, acted with determination and speed to stop the mutation and placed us in one of the best places in the world in morbidity and mortality.”
Bennett has recently had great success in the polls, but this has narrowed since Gideon Saar announced his resignation from the Likud party and the establishment of the “New Hope” party. In the latest poll, published this morning on 103FM, the right-wing party won only 14 seats, leaving it in fourth place, after the Likud, with new hope and a future.
As you may recall, in all of the last three rounds of elections, Bennett’s party has failed to win a double – digit number of seats, as recent polls suggest. In the first round of elections, his party did not even pass the blocking percentage and remained out of the Knesset, which led Prime Minister Netanyahu to fire Bennett as defense minister, and his partner Ayelet Shaked as justice minister.