After fierce battles with the coalition and wrestling with members of his own party, the chairman of the Likud faction and the opposition center, Yariv Levin, is appearing for an extensive interview that will be published tomorrow in "Shishvat" magazine, and is shooting in all directions, even within his party.
Regarding the shaming he did to six of his friends who were absent from voting in the Knesset, Levin says: "I did it with great sorrow, but wholeheartedly. There is no choice."
"Sometimes a situation arises where someone comes and finds himself in the situation. Look at David Bitan, for example - he does a great job, he is dedicated, he was decent enough to say 'I was wrong'."
Levin rebukes his friends - Katz, Edelstein, Barkat, Regev - who declare their desire to occupy the Likud summit, saying: And they do not contribute anything. "
He further says that he did not like the ethnic use she made of Miri Regev, when she said that "if the Likudniks stop choosing leaders with white DNA - there will be a real Mizrahi Likud," and says: "It would have been good if she had repeated these things.
That is not the spirit of the Likud. "
"She managed, she closed."
Shaked, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
On the attacks against former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, Levin says: "There is a deliberate attempt to harm a person who is identified as having the potential to be part of the Likud leadership in the future," and he said, "If he comes to the Likud, I will welcome him with open arms."
Levin also says he was happy to see MK Amichai Shikli in the Likud.
"We have done wrong to Deri"
Levin was asked if the Netanyahu family wanted security to continue using the driver and the vehicle, saying: "It's not because of the vehicles. Point. There is a real problem, I suggest not underestimating it. It is part of the false and inappropriate propaganda that is being done to Netanyahu."
He said the decision not to continue providing security to Netanyahu's family members was "a great risk taken by some of the professionals, and a risk taken by government ministers, whose abysmal hatred of Netanyahu does not allow them to see the danger that exists."
He marks and blames Ayelet Shaked as responsible for forming the government.
"Contrary to what she is trying to paint, Ayelet Shaked is the architect of this government. She is the cause of the formation of the government, she negotiated, she closed coalition agreements, she made great efforts in front of MKs who swayed and did not know whether to enter the government."
"False propaganda against him."
Netanyahu, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Levin, who was part of the Likud's negotiating team after the election, claims that the current government was planned from the first evening, and that the negotiations were "fictional."
He said, “We arranged with the right-wing negotiating team, and they were two hours late because they were busy with the real negotiations they were conducting on the other side.
When they arrived we asked 'Well, how did you do there?'.
We knew they were there. ”Their negotiating team numbered three people.
It was rare that all three were with us.
"There was always at least one who was engaged in the real negotiations on the other side. When they sat down with them - all three came. These are small things, but with meaning."
Levi says of Deri that "this is unacceptable conduct. You checked and did not find anything? Stand up, say it and close the case. "It will be unbearable in a democratic state. It is suitable for dark regimes. Aryeh Deri has been done a terrible injustice."
He refuted the allegations that the Likud was negotiating with Ram.
"It's time to make that clear. Even in the talks we had with Smutrich, we clearly said that there was no possibility of forming a government that relied on the PM.
It is a government that will not be able to function and endure, and that will abandon security.
We tried to persuade RAAM not to join the government on the other side. At no point did we think of forming a government that relied on RAAM.
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