Obstacles in the right lane: Following the shuffle in negotiations with Smutrich, in the Jewish home they threaten: "We will connect with Bennett" • Smutrich in response: "We will not negotiate in the media" Sderot Hever Levant
Will they solve the tangle?
Photography:
Joshua Joseph
Difficulties on the road to unification on the right:
Agreements have not yet been reached in negotiations between the Jewish House and the "Religious Zionist" party led by Smutrich - the Jewish House is trying to think of other possible connecting directions.
Israel Today has learned that the new chairman of the Jewish House, Hagit Moshe, whose election was supposed to facilitate connection to Smutrich, was ready to join a Jewish power headed by Ben Gvir or the Noam party. But the joint running agreement signed yesterday between a Jewish power and a party Noam, makes it difficult for the time being for another such connection.
The possibility of joining the right-wing party is now being examined in the Jewish home, a step in which Bennett is expressing interest.
Sources in the Jewish House told Israel Today that if the contacts with Smutrich do not mature, and he will indeed run alone - they intend to appeal against him to the Election Commission, claiming that his party's name, "Religious Zionism", is registered in the NRP, that the Jewish House is its current incarnation. "Bezalel takes the Jewish home for granted and runs with the name 'Religious Zionism', but if he does not connect with us he will not be able to take ownership of all of religious Zionism," the sources said.
The main controversy concerns the order of the placements in the list.
Smutrich offered Moshe a realistic place in the first quartet and another place in the second quartet, which is currently not considered realistic.
Moshe, on the other hand, demands the same outline as the one proposed to his predecessor, Rafi Peretz, which includes joint leadership and an equal distribution of positions on the list.
Smutrich said: "We have no intention of sharing the media or addressing rumors and spins and we call on the public not to believe them. We are working to create a broad and unified list that reflects the various shades of religious Zionism."
From the Likud to the right
At the same time, the mayor of Sderot, Alon Davidi, announced his joining the right-wing party led by MK Naftali Bennett. He will be placed third on the party's list for the Knesset. To Israel Today, because last week the prime minister used all his power to pressure Davidi to refuse Bennett's offer.
Davidi, 47, is a yeshiva graduate and an elite unit officer, qualities that match the aspirations of right-wingers, who aspired to attach field personnel with receipts in the making.
"Alon turned Sderot into an empire with excellent education and population growth, which is why I chose him for our team," Bennett said yesterday, alongside Davidi on a visit to Sderot.
"The State of Israel is in chaos due to failed leadership. We have detailed plans on how to rehabilitate the ruined economy. Alon Davidi did it in Sderot, and will do so now at the national level, as a leading member of the Shankim government."
Davidi said that "the State of Israel is in a difficult crisis today. Naftali is the only leader who will lead us to defeat the corona, create 400,000 jobs, take care of the self-employed and unite the people."
Meanwhile, the white paint leak continues: as first reported in "Israel Today", and despite claiming that "this is nonsense", MK Hila Shi-Vazan announced yesterday that he has joined Gideon Saar's "New Hope" party. Today it was announced that Xi-Vazan would be placed in the top ten on the list. It should be noted that Xi-Vazan was placed 39th on the blue and white list, and entered the Knesset through Norwegian law.
"Gideon Saar is the only one with the experience and abilities to restore stability and lead as prime minister to the healing of the rifts in the people and to the change that the citizens of Israel long for," Shi-Wazan said yesterday.
Saar added that "Shi-Vazan is an energetic parliamentarian who, in a short period of time, has succeeded in promoting many issues for the public in the outgoing Knesset. I am convinced that she will do so, and even more so, in the 24th Knesset."
Ya'alon Environment: May retire
In the center-left, meanwhile, the eyes are on the Labor Party chairman Merav Michaeli, who in turn is waiting for the results of the primaries for the party list, in order to advance negotiations for the unions.
It seems that the first in line to connect with Labor is Ron Huldai's "Israelis" party.
His terms of negotiations seem to be quite low, because his party does not pass the blocking percentage. At the same time, he brings with him a non-negligible budget, a matter that may also serve the Labor Party. Officials in the political system who spoke with Ya'alon say that if he fails to reach a significant union, he will probably retire from the race.
Shelach's "momentum" longs for a connection with work and with "Israelis" and as he stated in an interview with "Israel Today", he is entering into negotiations "without preconditions".
