Prime Minister Netanyahu treats the local elections as a pilot for the general elections. Likud candidates treated the party in the elections to the local authorities as something between a leper and an evil bedbug.
The controversy over the ultra-Orthodox recruitment plan proves that he is right. Netanyahu broke a new record yesterday when, for the umpteenth time, he announced the distribution of land for construction in the north and south to military personnel. The economy is being run as if it too had been kidnapped, in which every MK Limor Son Har Melech was involved.