Netanyahu in an interview with News 12 and 13 three days before the election

Three days before Election Day, Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Arrived tonight (Saturday) for an interview in the new editions of Channels 12 and 13. The prime minister promised not to fire the spokesman, addressed Lapid’s invitation to a confrontation, promised ministerial positions to Bennett and Shaked and even sharply attacked the media. Netanyahu stressed in both interviews that defectors from the smaller parties would eventually reach the Likud if he succeeded in receiving 61 recommendations.

In an interview with News 12, he responded to Lapid’s invitation to a confrontation: “I told Lapid, if you officially announce that you are running for prime minister, then I will come to the confrontation.” “Your whole campaign is about Yair Lapid, he proposed a confrontation in front of you and you did not come, why not? Are you scared?” Netanyahu was asked, who replied: “Do you think? My home for Torch. “

Netanyahu addressed the issue of defectors between the parties in the two channels and promised that some members of the various parties would defect to the Likud. “If we get 61 seats some of Gantz’s people will come to us,” he said in an interview with News 13. In an interview with News 12 he said that the members of the small parties would defect and also the members of the parties who claim to be right-wing. “I do not rule out the possibility that we have inquiries that the people from the parties that claim to be right-wing or right-wing but other, will eventually come to us,” Netanyahu said.

In an interview with News 13, Netanyahu referred to Ben Gvir’s proposal to promote “French law,” which is also supported by his party. “I reject it. I pledged to it. Who will stop the trial? These cases are collapsing, everyone understands that these are hallucinatory stitched cases. We have a mandate or two and there is great enthusiasm. I need you not to go back to another election, not to go back to the delusional rotation government to lock the economy Up, up. “

On both channels, the prime minister referred to the possibility of firing the attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, and promised not to do so. “I will not fire him, we will make reforms. I will not fire him, but I will take care of the balance in the system between the authorities. The judicial system is out of balance, as the decision now to open the sky is a wrong decision.”

In an interview with News 13 for the future of Israel after the election, Prime Minister Netanyahu said: “I think that because citizens understand that this is another election disaster, and at the same time form an illusory and failed rotation government, I think Bennett and Gideon are taking courses in the polls, I think they will vote for us. For one reason, because of the conferences I attend and they are full of enthusiasm. ”

Promised flights to Mecca

“If you get 61 this will be the last term?” Netanyahu was asked, and replied: “I have a few things: I want to launch the economy, I want to prevent Iran from nuclear weapons, four agreements and keep security. For the Arab citizens of Israel – I will bring you direct flights from Israel To Mecca. ”

Netanyahu referred to an incident on Friday in which he planned to come to Bennett’s house and said: “I went to Bennett’s neighbor who supports me, I hoped the neighbor would bring him to me, they chose the name Dwight who came up from New Jersey, it was said to be a surprise, “Without a torch and rotation. I heard him and Gideon Saar say that it will not be without a torch and rotation, it is a disaster for the State of Israel,” he said in News 12.

“Our country it is not a game for politicians with ambitions and rotations. We come out of the third world war, in the first two wars we had no war, in this world war the virus attacked the whole world, and we come out of the world first, it can not be done with rotation,” said Ra In an interview with Rina Maslih in News 12.

Netanyahu v. Rina succeeds: “You are recruited for propaganda”

The prime minister said on News 12 that he would put senior officials in his government and promised them ministerial positions: “Bennett and Shaked will be ministers in my government if I get 61. Otherwise there will be ministers in Lapid, in a rotating government.”

During the interview on News 12, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confronted interviewer Rina Matzliach, against the background of her questions about the trial against the prime minister. “You are recruited for propaganda,” Netanyahu slammed her, “Are you ashamed, do you think anyone believes you? You are recruited, a political party, this whole studio, but it does not interest me.”

Earlier today, after refraining from declaring himself a candidate for prime minister, opposition leader Yair Lapid called on Netanyahu to confront him tonight in a live televised confrontation on one of the three television channels.

In a tweet on his Twitter account, Lapid wrote: “Come to the Bibi confrontation. I’m not going to sit in the studios as your warm-up band. You said I was your opponent, facing the opponent. You asked where Lapid is? Here I am. Come stand in front of me for tonight’s confrontation.”