Strengthening Likud in the Battle of Likud: Haim Katz is expected to announce support

MK Eti Atia, who is considered a close associate of the center's chairman, Haim Katz, has publicly stood behind Sa'ar and signaled that his role and his role in the aerospace industry are also on the way. Attia is the third MK to support the storm, while most senior party supporters support Netanyahu

Strengthening Likud in the Battle of Likud: Haim Katz is expected to announce support

MK Eti Attia (Likud) on Sunday announced its support for MK Gideon Sa'ar in the party's primaries. Attia is the third MK to publicly support the storm, after MK Michal Shir and Yoav Kish, but her position is behind a major storm due to her proximity to MK Haim Katz, chairman of the Likud Center, and chairman of the former IAA staff - from the commanders The big ones in the Likud, Katz himself has not yet expressed public support for the storm, but is considered his associate and his supporter.

"In the Likud leadership elections, I will support Knesset member Gideon Sa'ar," MK Atia wrote on her Facebook page. "I greatly appreciate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his contribution to the state. However, I believe that in the existing political situation - the only one who can strengthen the Likud, get voters back, unite the people and form a government is Knesset Member Gideon Sa'ar. "

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Most Likud ministers and MKs have publicly expressed their support for Netanyahu in recent days and are coming to his support meetings with Likud activists across the country. Among Likud officials, almost all of them stood behind Netanyahu except Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and Minister Gilad Arden who did not publicly announce who they supported.

Sa'ar is expected to hold a launch conference for his primaries campaign against Netanyahu tomorrow, and Katz is expected to arrive. Sa'ar has not received the support of many MKs in the Likud faction, but in recent weeks a number of Likud heads and branch heads have publicly stood behind him.

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As part of the campaign, Sa'ar urges Netanyahu to hold a televised confrontation in the Likud-led elections next Thursday. "In every democratic race - the contestants are not the story. The elected officials are their servants. They are a tool for the citizens of the state to do it better. The members of the Likud and the citizens of Israel deserve a discussion in which positions and plans will be presented on the political-security, economic, social, legal and more. , Confrontation is required: clean, matter-of-fact and equitable, "Sa'ar wrote on Twitter.

At the same time as Sa'ar's conference, Netanyahu launched his primaries campaign over the weekend, during which he is expected to reach a long line of Likud branches across the country and meet with his supporters. About 200-300 Likud members arrived on Friday to launch Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's primaries campaign at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, including ministers, Knesset mayors, heads of authorities and branch heads. Among the ministers who stood out were Israel Katz and Miri Regev, who are expected to lead Netanyahu's primaries campaign, as well as Ministers Yariv Levin, Ophir Akunis, Tzachi Hanegbi, Amir Ohana, Dudi Amsalem, Yifat Shasha Biton, Eli Cohen, Ze'ev Elkin and Yuval Steinitz, as well as Knesset members Barkat, Tzipi Hotobelli, David Bitten, Shlomo Qari, Mickey Zohar, Ofir Katz and Keren Barak.

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