As the election approaches, the work of dismantling and assembling is gaining momentum. • Bennett, a traumatologist from the new right, believes that Smutrich is only threatening, and will now have to decide whether to go it alone. Interpretation
Bezalel Smutrich's remarks about the separate run of the religious Zionist party led by him caught Naftali Bennett unprepared.
Bennett has so far believed, and perhaps still believes, that Smutrich is merely doing muscle during the negotiations, and at the end of the last minute an agreement will be reached on a joint run.
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though Bennett is located not bad polls, adventure New Right has left him traumatized probably not Will be erased.
Bennett needed an insurance certificate to pass the blocking percentage, and thought he could build on members of religious Zionism.
Smutrich's absence jeopardizes the plan.
It will now be up to Bennett to decide whether to give up Smutrich once and for all and go it alone, or try to find other connections to get her coveted insurance policy.
Photo: From Bnei Gantz's Facebook page
Bennett is not alone.
The high blocking percentage poses a challenge to all the new players, as well as to some of the old ones, who may smell the intoxicating (and lying) smell of the polls, and discover in the moment of truth that the Knesset can only be seen on television.
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In polls examining the possibility of Smutrich's separate run, it became clear that the religious Zionist party he heads is now receiving four seats - on the verge of a blocking percentage.
Smutrich is sure that a map will only go up, and leans on the precedent of the past in which he passed and Bennett fell, but there is really no guarantee that this will happen this time as well.
To ensure as much as possible the passage of the blocking percentage, Smutrich will have to make his own sectoral affiliations, the Jewish home on the one hand and Jewish power on the other.
After splits and the formation of a host of new parties, calls for unity also began to be heard on the left.
Ofer Shelach, whose party does not pass the blocking percentage in any poll, was the first yesterday to call for immediate negotiations to unite the ranks in the camp. It should be mentioned that Shelach is the one who split Mish Atid and put himself at risk. His call to unite is the amendment.
Ya'alon splits - and calls for unity
Similar to Shelach, Boogie Ya'alon announced yesterday that he had split Mish Atid, which did not prevent him from announcing, during his statement to the media, that now was the time to unite the lines.
Ya'alon's party also does not pass the blocking percentage and any connection will be his only chance to enter the next Knesset.
The most significant move on the way to unification was made yesterday by Bnei Gantz, who was the first to announce that he does not insist on leading a united party and is even willing to be number 2. In doing so, he actually signaled to Yair Lapid or Ron Huldai that they should consider it.
Ganz is the only person in the political system that time plays in his favor.
If no one succeeds in forming a government and the Knesset dissolves again, Gantz will be prime minister starting in November.
This, of course, provided that he enters the next Knesset.
His party is estimated to be worth about NIS 20 million in party funding, and the fact that as long as he is in government he has a veto, could torpedo Netanyahu's political initiatives and play for the benefit of his new partners, as long as there are any.
The other candidates in the left bloc, such as Yaron Zelicha and Danny Yatom, who announced parties led by them, will also have to find an arrangement that will allow them to pass the blocking percentage, otherwise they may retire in the middle of the race.
Their separate run will provoke harsh reactions among campers.
Will the list remain shared?
The Arab sector has long understood the need to run together.
In response to the increase in the blocking percentage by Avigdor Lieberman, all the Arab parties, from Hadash to Balad, united in a movement that proved itself above and beyond, with their power rising from one round of elections to another.
This time too, when there were serious disagreements between the components of the joint list and the RAAM party led by Mansour Abbas, and despite the call of some to dismantle the package, by all estimates, the joint list will remain unified. Of them below the blocking percentage, which they believe will ultimately hurt the entire Arab sector.