For the first time in decades, the conflict with the Palestinians will hardly play a role in the elections • The Likud will focus on vaccines and the Arab sector • Saar will broadcast statehood • Lapid is fed up with advisers and will run the campaign alone • Bennett will focus on Corona and the economy • Shas will brand itself as the only social party
The Likud has recently decided not to talk about politics.
Focus: Only vaccines.
The party will feature statements by political opponents who did not stand the test of reality on the issue of the war in Corona, such as Yair Lapid, Yifat Shasha-Biton and already yesterday against the newcomer to Ya'alon's party - Prof. Hagai Levin, who claimed two months ago that Israel is not close to vaccination.
Netanyahu will express himself in political matters only in the context of press questions.
At the party headquarters have not yet officially assigned positions.
The campaign will once again be led by the Likud's limited media team, which includes Yonatan Orich, Topaz Look, Naor Yahya, Ofer Golan and Aharon Klein.
In the coming days, party members will speak out about getting out of the economic crisis and tightening ties with the Arab sector.
After Netanyahu's visits to Tira and Umm al-Fahm, the prime minister will continue to other Arab cities. The Likud's working assumption is that about two seats can be mobilized from the Arab public. At the same time, the prime minister's entourage seeks to arm new and attractive figures, with a total of six armor.
Gideon Saar's party focuses on the construction of the area and the content of the campaign.
Yesterday they released the election slogan: "Unity. Stability. Statehood."
Last night a conference was held with the participation of more than 50 branch heads, all council heads, deputies and council members.
The party is satisfied and claims that this is the culmination of the establishment of the organizational infrastructure of a new party.
According to party members, the goal is to establish 100 branches throughout the country, from Metula to Eilat, before the end of next week.
According to them, there are currently 6,000 active volunteers, and the intention is to reach the target of 50,000 by the end of February.
Tomorrow evening, the concept operation of the "From Metula to Eilat" campaign will begin, which will be accompanied by mass zoom events as a replacement for field conferences that are customary in campaigns.
The chairman of Yesh Atid, Yair Lapid, plans to lead the Yesh Atid campaign on his own - without outside strategy consultants. The main message: it is time for a "sane" government. We are likely to hear this word from him both in political contexts and in terms of getting out of the corona crisis. Lapid also clarifies that he is in favor of unions, and that "a large force of people who believe in liberal values must be built." In a conversation with reporters yesterday, he added: "I want to be a counter to Smutrich's values."
The strength of Yesh Atid is the relatively large scope of field activists, a matter that this time they will try to use wisely in the face of the limitations of the corona.
For now, Lapid is planning local conferences in Zoom.
Naftali Bennett's party is now running on two fronts: the first - the continuation of the campaign that will focus on Corona, economics and employment, and the second - the question of running together with Bezalel Smutrich.
At this point negotiations between the parties are stalled after Smutrich last week unveiled a new logo of an independent list and spoke out against Bennett in media interviews.
The dispute between the parties is over the number of places in the opening ten, when last weekend Bennett offered Smutrich three places, but the offer was rejected by the latter.
At the same time, the party will continue to reinforce the message that the other parties are dealing with "only Bibi or just not Bibi" while Bennett is busy formulating national plans for employment, integrating ultra-Orthodox in the IDF, small businesses, dealing with illegal infiltrators and more.
The party sees stability in the polls of recent weeks, along with a gradual decline in Saar's power, and is preparing to join forces and join other figures in order to launch the campaign and face Netanyahu head to head.
Despite the lack of clarity in the joint list and the tension between the heads of the three lists and the fourth wing, PM Mansour Abbas - the assessment among party officials is that even in the 24th Knesset elections the Arab parties will unite forces, due to fears that splitting some parties To block percentage.
Israel Today has learned that a number of senior clerics from the southern faction of the Islamic Movement are working to align Abbas and his colleagues.
Abbas associates confirmed that he was under heavy pressure from senior members of the joint list and the Arab sector to sever ties with Netanyahu and his people, but stressed that Abbas did not intend to compromise and that he intended to implement the government plan for the Arab sector that cost half a billion shekels a year for five years.
Shas headquarters have already been divided into positions and messages formulated. The party's first campaign will soon be launched, which will also appeal to the general public, claiming that in view of the retirement of Amir Peretz and Moshe Kahlon, Shas is the only social party.
The party will emphasize the issues of social disparities and respect for tradition.
This time, too, the late Rabbi Ovadia and the current leader of Shas, Rabbi Shalom Cohen, will be featured in the campaign.
And as in previous times, Chairman Deri is expected to express uncompromising support for Benjamin Netanyahu.
In Torah Judaism, people traditionally start working on the election campaign only very close to the election date itself, so now, for the party members, it is too early.
The Gewald campaign in the upcoming elections may be particularly easy: the party will talk about the corona restrictions that have hurt the ultra-Orthodox public and the treatment it has received from the general public.
Against this background, there is tension between the two parties that make up the list, Degel HaTorah, led by Gafni, and Agudat Yisrael, led by Litzman, over who will have the first right to choose the coalition position.
Avigdor Lieberman's party continues to strive to replace Netanyahu and form a government without ultra-Orthodox.
After signing a surplus agreement with the Yesh Atid party last week, Lieberman made it clear that he is striving to create a blocking bloc of four parties - Yisrael Beiteinu, Yesh Atid, the right and a new hope.
In the current election campaign, the party is focusing on its core issue - religion and state, but this time it will also focus on the economic issue, with its goal of rehabilitating the economy in the corona crisis.
Lieberman is expected to announce that he will demand the finance portfolio in the next government.
Apart from the new party chairman Ron Huldai, who promised this weekend to resign soon from the Tel Aviv mayor, the one who has received the most attention in the last two weeks is MK Avi Nissenkorn who left blue and white. The former justice minister is careful to attack his former partners in blue and white, in an attempt To transfer the "disappointed" to Gantz.
The party is also trying to present an image of "female empowerment", and last week four women were presented as joining the party, at a press conference that highlighted their being women and not necessarily their achievements.
The Deep Left Party is radiating cautious optimism in the face of the launch of new parties that may bite at some of its meager support base anyway.
In March, they intend to highlight cooperation with the Arab sector, and attack Netanyahu's courtship, following the voices of the sector.
In addition, the party emphasizes that they will make an effort to sit in the next government and does not outright rule out a meeting with Saar and Lieberman.
The party that in the last election finished with 33 seats waged a mass battle on the verge of the blocking percentage, with the mass abandonment continuing in the background.
Despite the disintegration, party chairman and defense minister Bnei Gantz continues to insist on continuing to lead the party. In blue and white they changed direction, and in contrast to the state line that Bnei Gantz kept, began directly attacking MKs who abandoned the list. Last weekend it was MK Avi Nissenkorn Who left for Huldai's party, about whom the party said in an official statement: "My father, you have turned a professional emissary into a mediocre liar."
The Tekuma party, or "religious Zionism" in its new branding, is now in significant difficulties with regard to the long-awaited unification with the new right of Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked.
The two fail to reach understandings, both regarding the order of the placements in the list and when it comes to more substantive issues.
At this point the party threatens to run alone and is even convinced that they will be able to pass the blocking percentage and reach five seats.
Moshe (Boogie) Ya'alon is tired of being part of another party, and yesterday he officially set out on his own.
Along the way, the guideline of the Telam Party, which was initially identified as a right-wing party and included MKs Zvika Hauser and Yoaz Handel who left for the Derech Eretz faction and later for Gideon Saar's party, will become clear.
MK Gadi Yabarkan was also a former member of the party and left for the Likud party.
Ofer Shelach's party, Tnufa, is expected to highlight economic issues, with the participation of list members, chairman of the Chamber of Independent Organizations in Israel, Roi Cohen, and former IDF spokeswoman Brigadier General Ruth Malki-Yaron. More heads of organizations are expected, and the party, which is currently not approaching the blocking percentage, is building on possible future connections.
Ben-Gurion and Rabin's historic party feel that this election could be the last chance.
The party's administration has ruled that the party's election will take place on January 24, and the election system is subject to a Supreme Court decision.
The only one who has so far stated that she will run for Labor is Merav Michaeli.
It is estimated that under a new leadership, Labor will seek to join another party out of political constraint, so as not to end its path in disgrace and remain outside the Knesset.
The party, led by Prof. Yaron Zelicha, former accountant general in the Ministry of Finance, is interested in the election surprise when Zelicha nominates himself for the position of finance minister.
Zelicha presents far-reaching reforms in the fields of economics, relying on the need to address the severe economic damage suffered by 20 percent of businesses closed in the wake of the Corona crisis.
In his interviews, Zelicha emphasizes that on his "first day" as finance minister, he will make three dramatic moves: repealing the Capital Investment Encouragement Law, dismantling the gas monopoly and imposing controls on its prices, and abolishing import quotas on cosmetics and pharma products.
"I have the knowledge, ability, experience and courage," he said.
Participated in the preparation of the article: Yehuda Schlesinger, Daniel Roth Avnery, Daniel Sirioti, Yair Altman, Dan Lavie, Yuri Yalon and Efrat Forsher
