The election campaign reaches its most crucial stage • In an interview to be published tomorrow in "Israel Today", Prime Minister Netanyahu refers to the campaign: "Loves to meet people on the ground" • On the reserve in the leadership: "There are promising young men and women"
On the way to Tuba Zangaria the Prime Minister enjoys the view.
Enjoy?
get excited.
As I would show my children when they were little and already wanted the ride to end, he took the trouble to admire in my ears any conventional attraction seen through the armored vehicle: look at the crane, look at what interchange is up here, look at the construction.
Only I did not want the trip to end, and he is really excited by what you see on the way.
Photo: Courtesy of Channel 20
I am Israeli, for me it is obvious, when I see a crane I wonder which worker will fall from it, when I see a building I calculate the price per square meter, an interchange for me is a traffic jam. On the way to Balfour the taxi driver explained to me that if we were a less privileged country, Bibi would have 50 seats In the election, "instead of saying thank you to Bibi, people are crying."
You enjoy the campaign.
"I like to meet the people on the ground, more than being closed between walls. The meetings with the activists and with the public are really back to life. Sorry, come back to life."
What's cool about being a prime minister?
"I like to drive in a hidden convoy to the beach or the orchard and just get out of the car and walk, and I do it, it's not a story. After all, Jerusalem, the steppe. I enjoy it the most."
From the parts where you're just a man.
"Inside me I am the same 21-year-old guy who was thrilled to walk in the mountains and ravines where our ancestors walked. I reserve time for reading, especially history books, thought, biographies, on a large scale."
And write?
"I write from time to time, but I'm not going to write my biography any time soon if people come to the polls," he laughs, "the hardest thing about being prime minister is that my family pays a very heavy price."
Have they never complained? They did not tell you: "Why do we need it, you can make a lot of money anywhere in the world, we will be a happy family wherever we want."
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Suppose you come out of the picture, and the claimants to the crown remain. What will it look like here?
"Those who claim the crown have usually failed to deal with the real democratic movement which is the Likud, and they are looking for a cure for their frustration and the media is inflating them. But there are important forces that have joined and are joining the Likud and I intend to promote new leadership."
Is there a specific person you identify as a leadership reserve?
"I am not saying names at this stage, but there are promising young men and women who can lead the country later. My goals are to cultivate new leadership, to launch the economy that will finally get us out of the corona, there are four more countries waiting for peace agreements and I must ensure they do not return to the dangerous nuclear agreement with Iran".
The full interview - on Friday on the Israel Today website