PM Netanyahu Speaks at a Conference in Support of Petra • Sa'ar's campaign raises gear: "Netanyahu's election is a choice for Israel's next opposition chairman"

Eight days before the Likud's primaries, Gideon Sa'ar and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's campaigns are gaining momentum. On Wednesday evening, MK Sa'ar held an active conference in Haifa, and Netanyahu reached a conference of supporters held in Petah Tikva.

Netanyahu said at his support conference: "We have changed the face of the state, and I ask - who can do that? Benny Gantz will influence America? Yair Lapid? I will continue into the Likud? And the main thing - 300,000 Likudians who stayed home in the last election will come to vote. They identify and cry out for what we are doing. "

Miri Regev, who was also named, said: "Are we abandoning the parents? We will abandon our leader? Gideon Sa'ar tells the PM to" resign. " How dare he? What will he say on the day he loses? We are all for coping, but not in this way and not in this way. We are not the Labor Party, we have a leader. "

Foreign Minister Israel Katz added: "Sa'ar has come into the Likud and dares to say only Bibi. He has taken the arguments of the left, Ahmed Tibi and Ayman Odeh, and wants to convince you to disqualify Netanyahu."

Sa'ar spoke to dozens of supporters, saying that "this long political crisis should end the state and exhaust its resources for unimportant things." At a conference attended by hundreds of activists, Sa'ar argued: "After 20 years in the Likud, after 14 years as prime minister, there will naturally be a change. We need renewal because the circumstances instruct us to renew."

"The Prime Minister has contributed to Israel all his life," Sa'ar added, "bringing important political achievements, but as the speakers said, we are not talking back, we are looking forward. We see the situation: We hear from friends, neighbors, relatives, people who identify with the Likud's way. We have a majority in the people, in the political, security and economic spheres, but circumstances created that want change are also natural. After the longest time in Israel, change is not an illegitimate thing. On the contrary, every system is built on regeneration, and today we need regeneration because the circumstances are clear to us.

Sa'ar and his wife redeem stone, at today's conference in Haifa // Photo: Hertzi Shapira

"A Netanyahu election is a choice for Israel's next opposition chairman, a choice for me is a choice that will ensure the establishment of a new national government led by the Likud. Netanyahu reduces the right block and I increase it. I can establish a government that can address the problems of the citizens, and also do a very important thing: to unite the people. Today is very important to one.

"I want to tell you, sometimes a political movement has to go in opposition. I led the opposition, led a 12-member faction and fought the opposition, led to overthrow the government. I was also a time out in political life, we had trips across the country and had time to talk. Now there is no longer thanking you for longstanding friendship.

"I want to thank my friends, the Likud faction, courageous members, high-quality members, worthy members, Knesset Member Michal Shir - the first time she stood next to me was 16 years ago, when I first faced the Likud Center. She has since made a way, and today I am all So happy to say: Knesset Member Michal Shir. Knesset member Sharan Hashel, made of special materials, did not internalize that she was a Border warrior in her past, but now I understand. Navigated by a powerful internal compass, thank you very much Sharan.

"Former Knesset Member Nurit Koren, I was in the Knesset and she was not, then she was when I was on time. I hope that in the future we can both serve with the people of Israel. That you will return to serve our people, and the brave friend, who gives aerial backing from the top, the chairman of the staff, Yoav Kish. Really, I can be quiet with such a serious staff chairman. I told him, even when I was not in the Knesset, that he represents the Likud with respect.

"I think that's what characterizes this whole group - not fussing, not coming down low, but respecting us. And I had the opportunity to see it from the outside too, and many times I would see, because it wasn't the Likud we knew, and I think there is a Likud future With such a young and energetic group, thank you very much. "