An hour and a half of waiting did not turn off the lightning in the eyes: Netanyahu's campaign reached Tiberias

Despite the rain and cold, hundreds of Likud activists came to the US support conference, and it seems that his status remains as he was, despite his opponent's charges and confrontation, Sa'ar. Amid his persecution and resentment toward the left and Mapai, Netanyahu's supporters do not forget what he did for them. "Now is the time to line up and stand together"

An hour and a half of waiting did not turn off the lightning in the eyes: Netanyahu's campaign reached Tiberias

On a cool December evening, with rainfall shamanic to fill and fill the Sea of ​​Galilee, on Thursday, about 300 Lake Tiberias residents arrived at the "Caesar" on the shore to support Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud conference, one of a series of similar conferences held this week. The contest for Likud leaders, as the party has not known since 2005 (in 2007 and in 2012, primaries were held against Danny Danon and Moshe Feiglin for the first time and vis-à-vis Feiglin for the second time), reminiscent of real-life struggles over the leadership of the movement. This deal comes from Netanyahu, who has a broad and loyal support base. Netanyahu and Likud-led prime ministers are already irrefutable facts for his loyalists.

Three weeks ago, Bnei Levi came to a similar Likud conference, all the way from Tiberias to Tel Aviv. At the conference, the prosecutor's office insisted on submitting the charges against Netanyahu, and Levy said that was the reason for his coming to the event, which he reached despite his disability, while wheelchair-bound. "Because of the persecution of the media and the prosecutor's office after Bibi," he explained.

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"Menachem Begin's path continues and is even better than he is." Netanyahu at the Tiberias Support Conference yesterday

PM Benjamin Netanyahu at Tiberias Election Conference, December 19, 2019 (Photo: Eli Ashkenazi)

He said he met people there who felt just like him, "I saw the brilliance in my eyes, the passion. I felt the area was warm." On Gideon Sa'ar's decision to run in the primaries against Netanyahu for Likud, Levi said it was "the match thrown on the heat vapor already in the air."

And back to Tiberias. "Bibi is the best leader in the world, he continues Menachem Begin's way and even better than he is," explained Maxim Dadon, a longtime neighborhood activist in the city. "What does Bibi do upset can do? To meet with Trump is enough for him to make one phone call. The moderate Arab states in friendly relations with Israel. Would you believe that once we get that? I feel a connection to Bibi, he has sincerity and he is a man of his principles and I appreciate it ", He added.

Dadon explained that Netanyahu's support stems from "the sense of security he gives citizens." According to him, the prime minister has gone to great lengths for the sake of state security, "For example, you will see the picture he sat with Obama and Obama seems to be listening to him when Bibi tells him that there is no way we will return to poor '67. He is a father figure."

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father figure. Netanyahu at a conference in Tiberias yesterday

Israel Katz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Elections in Tiberias, December 19, 2019 (Photo: Eli Ashkenazi)

But even more, Netanyahu's sympathy and support comes from the feeling of his fans being persecuted. They say it is the same persecution they say their parents experienced decades ago and is now taking on a new form. "I as a girl remember how Mapai chased my boss because he was from Mapam, so I didn't understand it," Stella Caposa-Smadja said.

"My father, who worked as a book in kibbutzim was an 'incised' man but was silent so as not to hurt his livelihood. Even us at home didn't say he was a Likudnik. If these things did not continue to this day, I would forget it, but the persecution continues, it only took on a new form. And comes in a flanking way. " Caposa-Smadja added that what the system once did today is done in other ways, "They still have the power because Bibi didn't clean the stables. What Bibi does to me hurts. That hate hurts me," she said.

Like Caposa-Smadja, Dadon also defined what his father went through decades ago as fear. "He was afraid to say in his workplace at the kibbutz that he was voting for freedom. And understand, my father was a strong man and a fighter, but there he preferred to remain silent and today it is reflected that the left still has control in some of the establishment. Bibi touched on the things that mattered most to them."

A legitimate - but unethical - assault

Marcel Dadon, Maxim's wife, is convinced that "the beating on Bibi is indirectly upon us. Bibi is simply the sponge. He absorbs it in our place." According to Ruti Bohadana, Netanyahu's political enemies know they will not succeed in knocking down the ballot box, "Bibi is the king of the world but trying to overthrow him in all kinds of ways because they know he cannot be knocked down. What two people are accused of, two sympathetic articles - look what a strong man he is, Facing everything. "

Saar's dealings are legitimate for the prime minister's supporters, but morally questionable. "The Likud is a democratic party," Bohadna said, "but it does not fit right now. Bibi needs the embrace of us all and will not strive for it. In the future, the majority may forget it, because people forget quickly, but I will not choose it even after Bibi retires."

"The majority will forget about it, because people forget quickly." Storm in support of Petah Tikva conference (Photo: Kobi Richter / TPS)

Gideon Sa'ar, Yoav Kish and Geula Stone at an election conference in Petah Tikva, December 19, 2019 (Photo: Kobi Richter / TPS, TPS)

Eli Lankri also thinks Storm is wrong. "Saar is worthy, but he didn't have to deal. I'm not angry with him but disappointed with him. If a cow suddenly drops all the knives on it?" However, according to a senior activist at the Likud branch in Tiberias, who wanted to remain anonymous, Sa'ar's challenge was precisely from Netanya. "He woke the bear from his sleep. It's a serious mistake for Saar, and his supporters will pay a price for that in the primaries for the Knesset list."

This may have been the longest wait for Netanyahu's arrival. For an hour and a half his fans waited for him at the Tavern Hotel, and the energy charge that could characterize such a conference, especially when accompanied by synonyms and deprivation, was a little forgotten. However, Netanyahu's supporters understand that this is not the time to take his eyes off the prize, and, as Lancri made clear, Netanyahu must leverage the Saar challenge in his favor. "Now is the time to line up and stand together and support Bibi. In the previous elections I did not go out to vote, this time I will bring all I can and I am sure there will be many more like me."

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