Prime Minister Sharon addressed hundreds of Likud members, including mayors and most of the party's ministers, launching his party's run for office • Netanyahu called to fight "for every voter"

• Netanyahu at a Support Conference at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened the Likud campaign for the Likud leadership on Friday at a senior Likud conference held at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem. Some 300 Likud officials attended - including ministers, Knesset members and Likud mayors. Ministers Moshe Kahlon and Gilad Arden were absent from the event.

During the conference, the Prime Minister addressed the Iranian threat and pressure exerted by the Obama administration on Israel to freeze construction in Judea and Samaria, stating that he did not think he was a prime minister in Israel facing such pressures. "In addition, Netanyahu called on those not to be caught complaining in primaries against Gideon Sa'ar and" fighting for all functioning".

The Benjamin Netanyahu Support Conference at the Prime Minister's Residence

"One thing I did during this time, in parallel with all our joint efforts to develop the country, build the country, better the country - one thing is to stop the spread of Iran and its desire to destroy us, with nuclear weapons and other weapons, and we arrest it," Netanyahu said. He added, "We had to do things in the political field that are not self-evident. Just as we had to put pressure on American governments who wanted to push us to the 1967 lines, how was I told there by a certain president? NOT ONE BRICK, not even one brick. Think there was a prime minister in Israel who was facing such pressures. "

Those present expressed their support for the prime minister, saying: "The prime minister has always fought for the state. He has always been there for us, now we stand and fight alongside him. "

Remember, the Likud Center yesterday ruled that the primaries between the prime minister and the party's prime minister will be held on December 26. Shortly before voting on the primaries, MK David Bitten tried to promote an initiative to repeal it, but Netanyahu asked him to shelve it, saying "we are a democratic movement and its members will decide who will lead it."